Coupeville Sports

   The Coupeville starting nine (and support crew) from 1930. (Photos courtesy Dale Libbey)

   Mickey Clark (center), whose name you hear every time you attend a football game at the CHS field.

Someone recently said — Coupeville is so small, you write about a team from 80+ years ago, all the last names are still the same.

And, while it’s not totally true, as there are a few new families sprinkled inside city limits these days, there is a kernel of truth.

The photo above, which commemorates the Coupeville town baseball team of 1929-1930, reportedly hung in Whidbey Island Bank for many years.

Now, it’s up on the internet, for all to see.

And, yep, sure enough, there are names like Black, Race, Libbey and Vaughan, names which still carry weight in Cow Town.

Not to mention one guy in the back row, Mickey Clark, whose name every current school kid hears whenever they attend a CHS football game at the field named in his memory.