Bellaire Virtual Sports Collection: Tom Rataiczak’s “The Rat’s Nest”

Access 1000s of Ohio Valley sport statistics, programs, newspaper articles, interviews, and other ephemera along with bits and pieces of Belmont County local history. Thomas E. Rataiczak has been collecting stats and more since the 1970s. He has digitized his collections and made them available through his website, theratsnest.org.

A Sampling of Documents Uploaded to "The Rat's Nest"

“The Rat’s Nest” homepage

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A multitude of stats are available for all sports

View old sports programs

Sports programs are available for a variety of sport

Newspaper clipping are collected together for individual years and sports

Search by year or sport

Items documenting local histories have also been uploaded

Basketball, Bellaire High School, Bowling, Cross Country, Football, OVAC, Queen of Queens, Rock Hill, Soccer, Sports history, Swimming, Track, Volleyball

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