[4] In his first season at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in 1942–43, Bushkar was promoted to varsity after the Southern Conference ruled that freshmen were eligible.
[4] A 5-foot-8-inch (1.73 m) guard,[5] he was named Virginia's college basketball player of the year by the Associated Press (AP) in 1945 despite playing on a losing team.
[6] Bushkar ended his career by being named Virginia's Player of the Year and making the All-Southern Conference team in 1945–46.
[1] He played 116 games for the Rebels in 1946, and sported a .336 batting average, hit 13 home runs, and had a .518 slugging percentage for the league champions.
[1] He attempted a comeback in 1951 with the Roanoke Ro-Sox of the Class B Piedmont League where he played only 19 games and hit his final professional home run while compiling a .192 average.