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
Click HERE for article by Dan D'Addona
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
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
Click HERE for article by Dan D'Addona
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
