Strittmatter to speak on Hall of Fame pitcher from Alger
From our Ada counterpart, www.AdaIcon.com.
Dr. David Strittmatter, ONU Assistant Professor of History will present The Ray Brown Project at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 5 in the Allen County Museum’s Folsom Auditorium.
Ray Brown (1908-65) was born in Alger in Hardin County. He pitched for the legendary Homestead Grays of the Negro Leagues and was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 2006. He died in the 1960s and is buried in Dayton, Ohio.
This semester, Strittmatter is teaching the course "Baseball in American Culture." He teamed with an ONU art professor, Melissa Eddings Mancuso, to secure grant funding for a student-painted mural of Brown, which will be placed on the concession stand at the Alger ball field. In addition, Strittmatter has begun a fundraising campaign for an Ohio historical marker.
As an assistant professor of history at Ohio Northern University, Dr. Strittmatter also oversees public history initiatives. He teaches an array of classes from Baseball History to Tudor England. His book on the development of British heritage sites will be published this month. Strittmatter earned his PhD at the University at Buffalo (The State University of New York).
This lecture is free and open to the general public.
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