Indianapolis, IN - 2011 - Presentations & Articles & Award Winners

Presentations: Click HERE for highlights from The Courier

• Alexander, Lisa Doris - But They Don’t Want to Play with the White Players, Right? – Representations of Negro League Baseball in Popular Culture
  
• Alpert, Rebecca - Who Is That Masked Man? Buster Haywood and the Indianapolis Clowns
  
• Alyea, Patrick - Four Taylors Together in 1914
  
• Baas, Chris and others - Using HALS to Record Black Baseball Landscapes: Student Immersive Learning in Documenting Perry Stadium
  
• Brunson, James Edward - Black Baseball in Logansport, Indiana, 1877-1899
  
• Burgos, Adrian - More than Cuban, Not Just Black: Alex Pompez and how a Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
  
• Isgrig, Dwayne - The Other Black Sox Scandal?
  
• Laing, Jeff - Playing the Professional Game in the New Mexico Territory: Bud Fowler and the New Mexico Baseball League’s Santa Fe Ancients (1888)
  
• Newman, Roberta - The Business of Barnstorming in the Post ’47 Environment: Engaging the Slow Demise
  
• Peterson, Todd - Seeking Contest with All the West: The French Lick Plutos, 1909-1915
  
• Steverson, Bryan - All-Star Clown to Crown Price: Goose Tatum
  
• Strecker, Geri - Black Baseball in Indianapolis during the Rise of the KKK
  
• Strecker, Trey - A Tale of Three Teams: The ABC’s, Hofeds, and Indians in 1914 Indianapolis

Articles:

• Lester, Larry - "Oscar Charleston Honors & Recognition"
  
• Lester, Larry - "This Black Ball Day in Indiana History"
  
• Strecker, Geri - "C.I. Taylor"
  
• Strecker, Geri - "Oscar Charleston - The Hoosier Comet"
  
• Wyatt, David - "The First Negro National League Game"

Poem by Philip Ross: "Negro League Baseball A to Z"

Players Panel

• JOHNNY WILSON --1948-49--of, author, Chicago American Giants
• IRA McKNIGHT --1951-52, 1956-60--of, c, Memphis Red Sox, Kansas City Monarchs, Satchel Paige All-Stars, Birmingham Black Barons
• LUDWIG JOHNSON—1945-46--batboy, Indianapolis Clowns
• CLIFF ROBINSON----1946-48--batboy, Indianapolis Clowns

Special presentation of historic marker at Washington Park, home of the Indianapolis ABC's

Authors Panel moderated by Dick Clark

• Dr. Rebecca Alpert - "Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball"
  
• Dr. James E. Brunson III - "The Early Image of Black Baseball: Race and Representation in the Popular Press"
  
• Stephanie Liscio - "Integrating Cleveland Baseball: Media Activism, the integration of the Indians and the Demise of the Negro League Buckeyes"
  
• Todd Peterson - "Early Black Baseball in Minnesota

Film trailer for “Is This Heaven?: The Pete Hill Story” by Keith Carmack

$2,500 Scholarship Winners:

• Annie Yang - Warren, NJ
  
• Emma Murphy - Manassas, VA
  

$1,000 Library Grants:

• Liberty Middle School - Ocala, FL
  
• Edward T. Bowser Sr. Elementary School - East Orange, NJ
  

Trivia Contest Winner:

• Ted Knorr - Harrisburg, PA
  

Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award:

• Jeremy Krock - Peoria, IL