Virtual 2021 - Presentations, Awards, Scholarships & Grants
ZOOM Presentations [moderators Michelle Freeman, Lisa Doris Alexander, Leslie Heaphy and Larry Lester:
Click on VIDEO for presentation highlights.
Special presentation by rapper Chuck D: "It is so hard to see my baseball cards move on."
Tweeb Webb Lifetime Achievement Award:
Gary Gillette and the Friends of Hamtramck Stadium
James Brunson for his presentation: Blues People: Music, Style & Black Baseball, 1865-1910
Bill Plott for his research on the Negro Southern Leagues
Robert Peterson Recognition Award:
Lonnie Wheeler for The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace and the Negro Leagues
Bill Plott for Black Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962
John Coates Next Generation Award:
Eric Chalek for his presentation: Leveling the Playing Field: Combining Negro Leagues Research & Sabermetric Analysis
Margaret Compton for her article in Black Ball Journal: Dating the Pebble Hill Plantation Baseball Film
Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award [no award given in 2021]:
Thomas R. Garrett Memorial $1,000 Scholarship Winners:
Julian Thomas - Robert Peterson scholarship
Ian Rich - Jimmie Crutchfield scholarship
Promise Egbu - Normal Tweed Webb scholarship
Doniya Boyd - Andrew Rube Foster scholarship
Richard C. Clark Memorial Library $500 Grant Winner: no grant awarded
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2020 Malloy Award Winners 2019 Malloy Award Winners 2018 Malloy Award Winners
2020 Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award
Dr. Leslie Heaphy - Canton, OH
2020 Thomas R. Garrett Memorial $1,000 Scholarship Winners:
Irena Petryk - Robert Peterson scholarship
Marlo Towle - Jimmie Crutchfield scholarship
Sarah Harper - Normal Tweed Webb scholarship
Sierra Kinsler - Andrew Rube Foster scholarship
2020 Richard C. Clark Memorial Library $500 Grant Winner: no grant awarded
- 1st Presentation — James Brunson - Blues People: Music, Style, and Black Baseball, 1865-1910
- 2nd presentation — Mark Aubrey - 1920 Knoxville Giants
- 3rd presentation — Todd Peterson - Negro Leagues vs Major Leagues
- 4th presentation – Emily Ruth Rutter – Baseball and Beloved Community in the Memoirs and Poetry of E. Ethelbert Miller.
- 5th presentation — Eric Chalek - Leveling the Playing Field: Combining Negro Leagues Research and Sabermetric Analysis to Expand Our View of Negro Leagues Players
- 6th presentation — Rich Puerzer - Big League Baseball in a Small Town: The Negro Leagues Visit Metuchen, NJ
- 7th presentation — Katie Krall - Celebration and Discrimination: Rube Foster and the Chicago American Giants
- 8th presentation — Milbert & Raymond Brown - “The colorful life of Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe, a Negro League Legend”
- 9th presentation — Bill Plott - Anecdotal Highlights of Black Barons History
- 10th presentation — Steve Dittmore - Junior Gilliam
- 11th presentation — Leslie Heaphy – The Martins and the Red Sox
- 12th presentation — Harriet Hamilton-Kimbro - Honoring of Negro Baseball Leaguers Who Called Nashville Home
- 13th presentation — Rodney Page - Allen Page: An Unsung Portrait
- 14th presentation — James Forr - Thomas Hayes, owner of the Birmingham Black Barons
- 15th presentation — Jeb Stewart - Birmingham’s baseball legend: Lorenzo “Piper” Davis
- Panel — Black Baseball Before 1920 James Brunson, Todd Peterson & John Thorn - Moderator: Larry Lester
Click on VIDEO for presentation highlights.
Special presentation by rapper Chuck D: "It is so hard to see my baseball cards move on."
Tweeb Webb Lifetime Achievement Award:
Gary Gillette and the Friends of Hamtramck Stadium
James Brunson for his presentation: Blues People: Music, Style & Black Baseball, 1865-1910
Bill Plott for his research on the Negro Southern Leagues
Robert Peterson Recognition Award:
Lonnie Wheeler for The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace and the Negro Leagues
Bill Plott for Black Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962
John Coates Next Generation Award:
Eric Chalek for his presentation: Leveling the Playing Field: Combining Negro Leagues Research & Sabermetric Analysis
Margaret Compton for her article in Black Ball Journal: Dating the Pebble Hill Plantation Baseball Film
Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award [no award given in 2021]:
Thomas R. Garrett Memorial $1,000 Scholarship Winners:
Julian Thomas - Robert Peterson scholarship
Ian Rich - Jimmie Crutchfield scholarship
Promise Egbu - Normal Tweed Webb scholarship
Doniya Boyd - Andrew Rube Foster scholarship
Richard C. Clark Memorial Library $500 Grant Winner: no grant awarded
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2020 Malloy Award Winners 2019 Malloy Award Winners 2018 Malloy Award Winners
2020 Fay Vincent Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award
Dr. Leslie Heaphy - Canton, OH
2020 Thomas R. Garrett Memorial $1,000 Scholarship Winners:
Irena Petryk - Robert Peterson scholarship
Marlo Towle - Jimmie Crutchfield scholarship
Sarah Harper - Normal Tweed Webb scholarship
Sierra Kinsler - Andrew Rube Foster scholarship
2020 Richard C. Clark Memorial Library $500 Grant Winner: no grant awarded
