Johnny Stuart

John Davis Stuart (April 27, 1901, Clinton, Tenn. – May 13, 1970, Charleston, W.Va.), nicknamed "Blood," was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1922 to 1925 after pitching at Ohio State University. He coached Marshall University basketball and baseball, winning four straight West Virginia Athletic Conference titles for the Herd from 1928-31, and had 11 players named to the All-West Virginia team and one, Johnny Watson, who signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1930. He was 67-21-1 at Marshall baseball. He was 496-29 as the Marshall basketball coach (1927-31), losing the WVIAC title to Glenville State late in his best season, 12-3 in 1929-30. He was an assistant coach for Marshall football from 1927-31, helping the Herd to win WVIAC titles in 1928 and 1931, with Marshall going 27-15-3 during his time on the sidelines for the Herd.

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Johnny Stuart (author)

John Spencer Innes Stuart, known as Johnny Stuart was born in Aberdeen, Scotland (20 May 1940 – 12 July 2003), an author and expert on Russian art, known for his interest in the British motorcycling rocker movement. Stuart founded the Russian department at Sotheby's London auction house in 1976, developed it to its leading position in the market and was considered the leading expert in Russian art outside of Russia.

The son of a farmer, Stuart was educated at Eton College, converted to Russian Orthodoxy at the age of 18 and studied Slavonic Studies at St John's College, Cambridge.

He co-curated an exhibitions of Russian icons "Gates of Mystery" at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1990, and was an advisor for their 1994 "British Street Style" exhibition to which he loaned items from his collection.

Stuart wrote the seminal book on the rocker movement and his knowledge of British youth culture made him a guru for actors and pop stars including the Rolling Stones, Oliver Tobias, George Michael, Gary Numan, Billy Idol, Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats, Paul Simonon of The Clash, and Kylie Minogue, many of whom he befriended. "Rockers, Kings of the Road" became notorious at the most shoplifted book in London.