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Cleveland, OH - 2012 - Presentations & Articles & Award Winners

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Presentations: Click HERE for highlights from The Courier
  • Alexander, Lisa Doris – “The Forgotten Pioneer: Larry Doby and the Reintegration of Professional Baseball” 
  • Booker, Melissa - “The Undefinable Satchel Paige”
  • Briley, Ron - “No One in the Yankee Organization Made Me Conscious of My Color:  Elston Howard and the Establishment Negro”
  • Brunson, James Edward - "Black Baseball in Cleveland, Ohio 1867-1900"
Fleer, Joshua - “When More than Only the Ball Was White: Barnstorming among the House of David and the Kansas City Monarchs”
Knorr, Ted - “#14” [Rap Dixon]
  • Krell, David– “From Buckeye to Black Eye: The Cleveland Buckeyes Championship Season of 1945, Jackie Robinson, and the Beginning of the End of the Negro Leagues”
  • Lamb, Chris – “Did Rickey Sign Robinson to Right a 40-Year-Old Wrong?”
  • Liscio, Stephanie - “Cleveland Baseball Diamonds”
  • Peterson, Todd – “The Greatest Catcher in America:  George “Chappie” Johnson 1876 – 1949”
  • Skornickel, George - “Characters with character: The Pittsburgh Pirates and the First All-Black Line-up”
  • Spivey, Donald – “The Women Who Saved Satchel Paige for Cleveland”

Articles:
  • Finkel, Jan - "Dreams Deferred, Dreams Dashed: The Negro Leagues and the Hall of Fame"
  • Lester, Larry - "Larry Doby - Double Dip, Chocolate Chip Player"
  • Lester, Larry - "Larry Doby Highlights"

Authors Panel moderated by Dick Clark
  • Lee Lowenfish - "Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman"
  • Thomas Aiello - " The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932"
  • Byron Motley - "Ruling over Monarchs, Giants & Stars: Umpiring in the Negro Leagues & Beyond" [The Bob Motley Story]
  • Terry Pluto - "The Greatest Summer: The Remarkable Story of Jim Bouton's Comeback to MLB" et al

Special Guest:
  • MINNIE FORBES- 1956--owner, Detroit Stars

Special "first-day issue" presentation by the U.S. Postal Service of the new Larry Doby stamp 

PLAYERS:
  • EARNIE (COKEY) NIMMONS --1952--of, Indianapolis Clowns, Kansas City Monarchs, Philadelphia Stars
  • TED TOLES, JR., —1946-47, 1949--p, of, Pittsburgh Crawfords (USL), Newark Eagles, Cleveland Buckeyes, Jacksonville Eagles.
  • GENE JOHNSON --1956-57--1b, of, Detroit Stars
  • MEL (BUCK) DUNCAN --1949-51, 1955--p, of, Kansas City Monarchs, Detroit Stars

Special presentation on Cleveland's League Park—Jennifer Vokoun

$2,500 Scholarship Winners:
  • Katarina Nguyen - Edmonds, VA
  • Michael Zoorob - Brentwood, TN

$1,000 Library Grants:
  • Windy Hill Elementary School - Jacksonville, FL
  • Buffalo United Charter School - Buffalo, NY

Trivia Contest Winner:
  • Ted Knorr - Harrisburg, PA

Robert Peterson Recognition Award:
  • Al Hunter
  • Don Spivey

John Coates Next Generation Award:
  • no winners

Tweed Webb Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Gary Ashwill

Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award:
  • Wayne Stivers - Plano, IL

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    • 10 Highlights of 50th Anniv.
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    • Sol White Dedication
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