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Memoriesnever fade is the perfect vacation spot for adults and kids alike! Located at the end of a culdesac, you will feel completely secluded while being in the heart of Hochatown. Kids will be fully entertained by the half basketball court, play ground with 4 swings, rock wall and slide, arcade games, and exploring nature and the creek on the property. Adults will love the large wrap around porch with plenty of places to relax like the porch bed swing and outdoor living area, complete with a fireplace and hot tub. Spend family time around the fire pit or playing horse shoes and corn hole.

The covered grill deck is equipped with a gas grill and pellet smoker allowing you to do everything from grilling burgers to smoking a brisket.

Inside the cabin, you will find an open concept living room, well stocked kitchen with a large island, and dining table for 8. This beautiful cabin has two primary suites and a bunk room with its own full bath. The bunk room has a queen over queen bunk and a twin over twin. Each bunk has its own private TV and wireless headphones. The two primary suites each have a king bed and an en-suite bathroom complete with soaker tub, large walk in shower, and double vanity. The kitchen has a coffee pot and a Keurig.

In a previous lifetime I covered sports and wrote a column for the Herald-Journal. When I was asked to write about some of the more memorable accomplishments and people involved in sports over the past century, it was pretty obvious that there aren't a lot of us old geezers left who remember that simpler time in sports.

Actually, I can't claim to have played for coach Red Dobson at Spartanburg High or coach Phil Dickens in the glory days at Wofford or to have seen David Pearson or Cotton Owens or Bud Moore when they took their first steps toward becoming legends in automobile racing. That really was before my time. But rest assured, those of us who have been involved in, spectated, or just known about sports during the past 40 or so years in Spartanburg and South Carolina have been fortunate enough to have lived a sports fan's dreams. In the past year, the Herald-Journal has presented interesting, major stories on the 1938-39 Spartanburg American Legion baseball team and the 1949 Wofford football team. The "49ers" under coach Phil Dickens was a great story of a mixture of young men who graduated from high school and were joined by some returning veterans from World War II. Those men have contributed in many ways, including as leaders in the Spartanburg community. But there are many other proud moments involving famous and not-so-famous personalities and events that occurred in the state during the past 40 or so years. It was a simpler time. Wofford, Presbyterian and Newberry were fierce rivals in football. Erskine joined that group in basketball to form the Little Four, and the gyms were packed when the schools played each other. The coaches were great friends, but also fierce rivals who were not above a little gamesmanship. I still remember the night at Presbyterian College when Wofford's Gene Alexander, the tall graying, sometimes volatile coach, was upset with an official's call and the basketball unfortunately came bounding toward him about the same time. It was a perfect kick, bouncing off the rafters of the field house. It was a favorite moment involving a great man and great coach. Wofford's football program, which played Texas A&I for the national NAIA championship in 1969, had one of the best small college coaching staffs in the country in the mid 1960s. Conley Snidow was an innovator of the wing-T formation. Jim Brakefield, who followed Snidow as head coach, Alexander, Bob Muirhead and Fisher DeBerry, now coach at the Air Force Academy, made up the staff. They were hard-nosed, fundamental-minded men who turned out a large number of solid citizens who have contributed to success in the Upstate and beyond. In another sport, Earl Buice, who directed the food service program at Wofford but was even more interested in his job as golf team coach, persuaded the NAIA to play its national golf championship at Village Greens Country Club in Inman. The Terriers, with a lot of homegrown talent, won that national championship as players finished at the same time darkness enveloped the course at about 9 p.m.

Holtz's first impression Those were days when Frank Howard was the football coach at Clemson and South Carolina was changing coaches fairly often. Marvin Bass had resigned at Carolina in the middle of spring practice. He had brought in two or three new young assistant coaches just prior to the start of practice. And on the day that Paul Dietzel, the designated savior of Carolina's football program, was announced as the new head coach, he announced during the press conference that he was bringing his own coaching staff, but he would retain the current coaching staff through the upcoming school year. A scrawny little fellow standing in the back of the room leaped up, throwing an arm into the air and yelling, "All right." That was Lou Holtz, a two-week veteran of the Gamecock staff who had just closed on the purchase of a new house in Columbia. He could laugh about it later, but it wasn't real funny at the time.

Minor league baseball Spartanburg was the home of one of minor-league baseball's most successful baseball teams in 1966 when Pat Williams, an exuberant young graduate of Wake Forest and a disciple of Bill Veeck, was brought in by team owner R.E. Littlejohn to run the Spartanburg Phillies. Pat came up with every promotion you could think of, filled the stands at Duncan Park every night, and was aided by the fact that manager Bob Wellman had an outstanding team on the field. It was an exciting time as the Spartanburg Phillies -- with shortstop Larry Bowa, second baseman Denny Doyle and pitchers John Parker and John Penn -- battled the Greenville Mets, who had a couple of outstanding pitchers named Nolan Ryan and Jerry Koosman among others, for the Western Carolinas League championship. Pat was always bringing in a celebrity and giving away prizes to the fans. Bob Feller, Satchel Paige, Paul Hornung and Max Patkin are among those who come to mind. Of course, Pat is now head of the Orlando Magic and other athletic interests of the DeVoe family. John Gordon, who made the games sound exciting on the radio, is still doing the Minnesota Twins broadcasts, and Warner Fusselle, who followed Gordon here, for years worked with the late Mel Allen doing This Week in Baseball television shows.

Golf, celebrities and YMCA The year 1966 also saw the final playing of the Betsy Rawls Peach Blossom Golf Tournament, named in honor of the Spartanburg resident who is an LPGA Hall of Famer. It seems the LPGA wanted the purse raised from $10,000 to $12,500 for the following year. That apparently was a little steep. But Spartanburg did have one of the most successful golf tournaments in the country for many years. Bob Black, then the professional at Lan-Yair Country Club, worked with the Shriners to build the Shrine Pro-Am. Celebrities from pro football, baseball, golf and entertainment were regulars in the event. Gary Player, former New York Jets wide receiver Don Maynard (who for many years was the all-time leading NFL receiver), the late Miami Dolphins linebacker Bob Mathieson, entertainer Buck Trent and New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin all played here. Martin came because of his pitching coach, Spartanburg's Art Fowler. Art had been a major contributor to Martin's success at every one of his managerial stops. Art became one of the most successful pitching coaches in major league history and was Martin's confidante. I remember listening to the two of them swap stories and being impressed that Billy would leave spring training to come to Spartanburg to see Art's daughter Cheryl in a high school basketball game. Art and Pacolet's Ernie White and George Banks, Mike Page of Woodruff, and even Ken (Hawk) Harrelson, who was born in Woodruff but grew up in Savannah, were among the heroes we could enjoy following in the big leagues. And Al Lakeman, who moved to Spartanburg after his marriage, wrote columns for the Herald-Journal during the World Series while he was a coach for the Red Sox. Memories from the 1960s and '70s include Bill Guy, who ran the YMCA Sunday School Basketball League that fostered major competition between the youth of the city who had not made high school teams. The highlight of the year was the YMCA Sunday School League banquet that included guest speakers such as Digger Phelps from Notre Dame, Marquette's Al McGuire, Lefty Driesell from Maryland and Billy Packer, who was just beginning his career as a TV commentator.

Prep football and Fuller Banquets were a big deal back then. Spartanburg High football coach Bill Carr was known as much for his ability as an orator as he was for phenomenal success on the field. The Spartanburg banquet would last for four hours or more as Carr called each of his more than 100 players up and had kind words to say about each one. Those were years when Spartanburg had a juggernaut. The regular-season games weren't even close. But there was never to be a state title. Wayne Tolleson -- who later led the nation in pass receiving at Western Carolina before spending years as a successful second baseman for the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees -- and Steve Fuller were among the standouts of those teams. It was Fuller who made a major impact on sports in this state, in my opinion. He was the subject of a tremendous recruiting battle. He could have gone to North Carolina to play basketball for Dean Smith, but he settled on Clemson. His decision helped convince many athletes to stay in the state and play for Clemson or Carolina. Most of the big-name athletes stayed in the state for years to come, until coaches at Carolina and Clemson in the past decade seemed to allow that trend to change. Fuller was later drafted in the first round by the Kansas City Chiefs and started at quarterback as a rookie. High school football in the Upstate has always been a major source of pride. Willie Varner became a legend while coaching at Woodruff. Phil Clark at Greer, Bill Carr at Spartanburg and later Lou Fogle at Dorman all had tremendous success.

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