Mark Hornbaker
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Meeting:11:00 AM – 5:30 PM / Dinner: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Hilton Garden Inn
7301 Waverly Street
Bethesda, MD 20814
The afternoon event is free to attend. Seating capacity 80, ** Line up of speakers may change.
At 11:00 AM, Mark Hornbaker, will have some opening remarks.
Our Emcees will be Ed “Scoreboard Boy” Baruch and Bill “Bat Boy” Turner
11:05 AM – Jimmy O. Williams / Long time professional ball player that grew up in D.C. playing baseball. He currently coach’s baseball for the PGCC baseball team and the D.C. Grays. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=willia020jam
11:35 AM – Edward Johnson / Will talk about Cecil Travis. A little more about Ed, is an attorney in private practice in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His experiences with Washington baseball history – beyond rooting for the Senators in his childhood – started in earnest in the early 1990s.
He wrote several articles on major league baseball in Washington for student newspapers at George Washington University as he was completing his law degree there. Later, along with Tom Simon and Neal McCabe, he served as one of the editors of Hank Thomas’ Walter Johnson: Baseball’s Big Train. Ed’s collaboration with George Case, III on exhibits at the Trenton (NJ) City Museum and New Jersey State Museum led to his paper and presentation on the Trenton Senators at those museums and a regular column in Tom Holster’s iteration of Nats News spotlighting various Washington minor league farm clubs. It was through George Case, III that Ed was introduced to Cecil Travis; that introduction, along with Ed’s ties to the state of Georgia (BS, University of Georgia; MS, Emory University) led to Ed’s visit with Cecil on his Riverdale, Georgia farm in 1995.
12:05 PM – Ted Leavengood & Chris Shebby / Will be talking aboutTed’s newest book, Dick Bosman on Pitching: Lessons from the Life of a Major League Ballplayer and Pitching Coach, author Ted Leavengood examines Bosman’s life in baseball, from his winning the ERA title in the American League in 1969 and his no-hitter in 1974 to his current coaching position with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Ted Leavengood, is a urban planner that worked for HUD for many years. He has been writing about Washington baseball since 2007 and have a few books on the subject, the latest of which is “Dick Bosman on Baseball,” by Rowmand and Littlefield, that will come out on March 16th.
12:35 PM – Lunch, featuring the popular pre-made sandwich buffet, which includes ham, turkey and roast beef sandwiches, condiments (Mustard, Mayo, horseradish) dill pickles, lettuce tomato, individual bag of chips, assorted fresh fruit and assorted soft drinks.
1:15 PM – George Case III / Will share his wonderful stories about his father who played for the Senators in late 1930’s and 40’s. George, will have many other wonderful stories. George was one of my guest speakers at the 1st D.C. Baseball History Meeting.
1:45 PM – Tom Brown & Bill “Batboy” Turner /Tommy and Billy grew up in Silver Spring. They both attended and played sports from elementary school though junior high and high school (Blair) together. They also went on to play baseball at the University of Maryland. After Maryland they both played baseball for the Shenandoah Indians (a semi-pro team in the Shenandoah Valley).
Tommy went on to play baseball for the Senators and football for the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. After retiring from the Redskins Tom created the Rookie League, where hundreds of children learned how to play baseball and basketball.
Billy went on to become a Montgomery County Circuit Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit, February 26, 1993 to March 31, 2000. They have remained close friends for 70 years.
2:30PM – Mike Wallace / MASN’s Nats Talk, Mike also pitched for four Major League teams in the 70’s. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wallami01.shtml
3:15 PM – Pat Malone / Washington Senators Fan Club and the collective efforts to bring baseball back to D.C. Pat, was also a special advisor to the D.C. Baseball Commission.
3:45PM – Chad Cordero / holds the single season save record with 47 saves in D.C. Baseball History. Chad also holds the all time save record in D.C. Baseball History with 113 saves. Chad also had the first save as a Nat on 4/12/2005 and the first Nat to save a game at RFK on 4/14/2005. Chad also registered the save in the last home game that was played RFK on 9/23/2017.
4:30 to 5:30 / Book signings, memorabilia for sale
Dinner from 6:00PM to 8PM – cost $60 per person, 30 seat capacity.
Three entrées
•Blacken Chicken with Corn and Black Bean Salsa
•Prime Rib with Horseradish Cream
•Salmon with White Wine Cream Sauce
Salads
•Cucumber, Onion and Tomato Salad
•Fresh Garden Salad
Starches
•Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
Vegetables
•Sautéed Market Vegetables
•Grilled Asparagus
Desserts:
•Chef Selection of Cakes and Pies
- To reserve a seat for the meeting you must e-mail me at mhornbaker@comcast.net. Please provide me names of all guest as we only have room for 80 people for the meeting.
- To reserve a seat for the dinner you need to send Mark Hornbaker an e-mail and I will tell you where to send your check. ~ Your seat won’t be officially reserved until I receive the check. FYI: We only have 30 seats for the dinner, that will cost $60 per person.
I have to tell you I think this will go down as out best meeting to date. I hope you can join us!
Once again I want to thank Mike Henry and John Yim for their generous donations. I also want to thank Barbara Doran and Gary Sarnoff for their help setting up the meeting.
