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:

• John Graf - Janesville, Wisconsin

 
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:

• Dr. Charles Crutchfield III - Mendota Heights, MN
  
• Anthony High - Kansas City, MO
  
• Todd Peterson - Kansas City, MO