No. 246: Billy Hogart

The ButteCast with Bill Foley · Feb 20, 2025 · 1h 31m

Not many people can tell a story like a Hogart, and Billy is as good as any of them.

He grew up on Copper Street, one of five children of Bill and Mary Carol. Mike, Michelle, Jack and Pam are the other four.

If they weren’t born with a ball in their hands, the Hogart kids were certainly raised with one — even if it was held together with electrical tape. Billy excelled at baseball, a game that he picked up when he was 4 or 5 when his uncle Dan hit him fly balls in the Dublin Gulch.

Billy was a standout player in Little League, Babe Ruth and American Legion before playing one year at Easter…