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Kansas City, 2016 - Presentations, Awards, Scholarships & Grants

Presentations: Click HERE for highlights from The Courier
First Pitch: Larry Lester - Why Black Baseball Matters! Click HERE for YouTube video
Ruby Berryman - Barnstorming as Theatre: Satchel Seizes the Elixir
Dr. James Brunson III - One of the Finest Catchers Who Ever Looked Though a Mask: Visual Culture, Blackball and Frank Maupin, 1885-1899
Brian Campbell - African American Ballplayers Abroad: Baseball, Race & the Black Press, 1920-50
Dr. Brian Carroll - Black Baseball's Funmakers: Time to Take the Ethiopian Clowns Seriously
Peter Gorton - John Donaldson: Restoring the Legacy of Segregated Baseball's Greatest Left-Handed Pitcher Frank White - Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
Sherman Jenkins - Satchel & Monarchs Tame Dizzy Dean's All-Stars
Nia and Owen Lawson IV - Beyond KC . . . Shadowball 2.0: A West Coast Migration - West Coast Baseball Association
Dr. Karl Lindholm - The Cuban Giants Come to Middlebury
Todd Peterson -  Before the Monarchs: The Kansas City (KS) Giants, 1907-1917
Allison Petonic - Ohio's Capital City in 1884: Fleet Walker's Major League Visits to Columbus
Paul Spyhalski - Iowa's Black Barnstorming Champions
Bryan Steverson - Brothers in our Game: Negro Leaguers with Friends
Frank M. White - Untold Stories of Black Baseball in Minnesota
 
Special Panel Presentation (to celebrate Satchel Paige's 110th Birthday):
  • Dr. Donald Spivey, moderator with Pamela, Carolyn, Rita and Robert Paige
  • View VIDEO with Bob Paige and newscaster Dani Welniak
 
Tweeb Webb Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Dr. Charles Crutchfield for creating the Jimmie Crutchfield Scholarship
  • Kevin Johnson for creating the website www.seamheads.com
  • Dr. Derrick Jones for his Traveling Baseball Exhibit on the Negro Leagues

Robert Peterson Recognition Award
  • Dr. Brian Carroll for The Black Press & Black Baseball, 1915-1955
  • Dr. Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton for Daddy's Scrapbook: Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball Leagues, a daughter’s perspective
  • Frank White for They Played for the Love of the Game

Trivia Contest Winner:
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Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award:
  • Ted Knorr - Harrisburg, PA
 
Thomas R. Garrett Memorial $1,000 Scholarship Winners:
  • Kevin Vernan Crosby from Largo, Maryland
  • Grant Heindselman from Dallas, Texas
  • Josephine Riedell from Hiawatha, Iowa
  • Grace Rootes from Noblesville, Indiana
  • Jansen Rouillard from Wichita Falls, Texas
 
Richard C. Clark Memorial Library $500 Grant Winner
  • Geneseo Public Library, Geneseo, Illinois
 
Visiting artists:
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  • Anthony High - Kansas City, MO
  • Todd Peterson - Kansas City, MO

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  • Books
    • Black Baseball's National Showcase UPDATED
    • Caged Champions
    • Negro Leagues Book Vol 1
    • Negro Leagues Book Vol 2
    • New York City
    • First Colored World Series
    • Rube Foster in his Time
    • Black Baseball in . . .
    • Black Baseball's National Showcase
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    • Author's Bio
    • Education & Scholarship
    • Our Guest Speaker Today
    • Professional Memberships
  • NoirTech
    • Media Appearances
    • Research Contributions
    • Client List
  • Exhibits
    • Crowning Achievements
    • The HELP
    • Currency of Change
    • Black SITCOMS
    • The True Museum
  • Number 42
    • 42 Tribute
    • Why Jackie Robinson?
    • Honoring #42
    • 10 Highlights of 50th Anniv.
    • 50 Fast Facts on JR
  • Grave Markers
    • Sol White Dedication
  • Contact Us