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Birmingham, AL - 2010 - Presentations & Rickwood Field & Award Winners

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Presentations:  Click HERE for highlights from The Courier
  • Corey, Mary and Mark Harnischfeger - “Teaching Racism"
  • Gay, Timothy - “Denting Jim Crow: Satchel Paige and Black-White Barnstorming in the ‘30s and ‘40s”
  • Gorton, Peter and Sam Sinke – "The Donaldson Network: Creating Content Using Emerging Technologies”
  • Haupert, Michael– “Integrating Major League Baseball: A Counterfactual Analysis”
  • Isgrig, Dwayne - “Almost the Third Black Brown: Piper Davis and His Near Miss with Integration in 1947”
  • Kenney, Rick - “Eating the Peach: Integrating the Macon Nine” [South Atlantic League]
  • Nelson, Elizabeth “Zann” - “J. Preston (Pete) Hill: The Journey to Left Field"
  • Peterson, Todd - “Champions of the South: The Birmingham Giants, 1904-09”
  • Steverson, Bryan - “From Birmingham to Brooklyn: The Baseball Journey of Dan Bankhead”
  • Strecker, Geri - “C. I. Taylor’s Birmingham Giants: Setting the Standard for Negro League Baseball”
  • Strecker, Trey - “Pride and Prejudice: The Cuban Giants, the St. Louis Browns and the 1887 Incident at West Farms”
  • Watkins, Clarence - “Baseball Before Rickwood”

Players Panel
  • BILLY RAY HAGGINS --1953-55, 1958—outfielder, Memphis Red Sox
  • WILLIE JAMES LEE --1955-59-- outfielder, Kansas City Monarchs, Birmingham Black Barons
  • TONY LLOYD --1958-59--second baseman, Birmingham Black Barons
  • CHARLES LEE (COOT) WILLIS --1950-- outfielder, Birmingham Black Barons
  • and special appearances by BIRMINGHAM SAM BRISON - former clown & 2b for the Indianapolis Clowns;
  • RENDON "BULL" MARBURY, former Birmingham Black Baron
  • SAM ALLEN, former K.C. Monarch

Authors Panel moderated by Dick Clark
  • Dr. Brian Carroll - "When to Stop the Cheering?: The Black Press, the Black Community, & the Integration of Professional Baseball"
  • Tim Gay - "Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson"

Tour of Rickwood Field by David Brewer, Executive Director.
  • See the list of 107 Hall of Famers who played at Rickwood Field HERE.

$2,500 Scholarship Winners:
  • Chad Richardson - West Chester, Ohio
  • Lewis Pollis - Cleveland Heights, Ohio

$1,000 Library Grants:
  • West Lowndes Elementary School, Columbus, MS
  • S.D. Lee Middle School, Columbus, MS

Trivia Contest Winner:
  • Karl Lindholm - Cornwall, VT

Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award:
  • Gary Mitchem & McFarland Publishers (Jefferson, NC)



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