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Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project
The Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project is an effort started by Peoria, Illinois anesthesiologist Jeremy Krock and with support of the Society for American Baseball Research to put a proper headstone on the graves of former Negro League baseball players.
==History of the Project==
Founded in 2004, the Project started when Dr. Krock contacted members of the Society for American Baseball Research after he discovered there was no headstone on the grave of Jimmie Crutchfield, a player who grew up in Krock's childhood home of Ardmore, Missouri.〔("Negro Leagues project marks history" ESPN's Outside the Lines" ESPN Network, Last Update on February 20, 2011 )〕
After Crutchfield, the Project went on to place headstones on the graves of notables like John Donaldson, Candy Jim Taylor,〔("Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project" Ongoing website updates by Larry Lester, Baseball Historian )〕 Theodore "High Pockets" Trent,〔 Steel Arm Johnny Taylor, Sam Bankhead, Bobby Robinson, Bill Gatewood,〔 James Edward "Sap" Ivory, Robery "Fuzzy" Garrett, Frank Grant〔("Negro League Star Frank Grant Finally Gets Tombstone In Clifton, NJ" CBS Radio, WCBS 880 AM, New York, NY Website Posting on June 15, 2011 )〕 and Dink Mothell.〔("Negro Leagues' heroes finally get their tombstones" NBC Nightly News, July 19, 2011 )〕
Some of the Cemeteries the group has installed stones include Burr Oak Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois, Springdale Cemetery in Peoria, Illinois, East Ridgelawn Cemetery in Clifton, New Jersey,〔 and Greenwood Cemetery and Allegheny Cemetery〔("Awards To Honor Legacy Of Negro League Baseball Great" KDKA, CBS News, Pittsburgh, PA, August 14, 2011 )〕 which are both in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
While the grave marker project depends mostly on small contributions, the group has also received sizeable donations from people like Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf,〔 former player and manager Don Zimmer,〔 and former 8th Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent. In fact, Vincent noted he had met Jimmie Crutchfield and liked him. Vincent has gone on to say the Baseball color line which lead to good black athletes being excluded from Major League Baseball was ..."one of the great insults to a community."〔
The project has managed to seed other gravesite work in the community and in the burial industry. For instance, the wife of Jimmie Crutchfield lay beside him and was also unmarked until the Cemetery donated a marker for Julia Crutchfield. Olivia Taylor, the wife of C.I. Taylor is also on the list for a headstone. Often a headstone, such as the marker for Bill Gatewood〔("For Negro League Players, a Measure of Recognition" New York Times, June 30, 2010 )〕 was donated by the headstone engraver, which automatically advances the donated money to the next Negro League baseball player headstone.
Baseball historian Larry Lester works with Dr. Krock and with other researchers of the Society for American Baseball Research, they have compiled a list of about 3,600 players, their birth dates and death dates, where they are buried, and if they have headstones.〔 Much of the research comes from the Negro Leagues Research Committee, an arm of the Society for American Baseball Research.〔
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