Many Negro Leagues players don’t have anything to mark their burial spot. Josh Gibson’s great-grandson, Sean, aims to change that.
Sam Streeter was known for his curveball. The lefty won pennants with the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the 1930s, part of a loaded roster withby the name of Satchel Paige.) In a decade and a half of professional baseball, Streeter built a career studded with highlights, including starting the very first East-West All-Star Game and throwing a 17-inning complete game at storied Rickwood Field in Birmingham.
“This is near and dear to our hearts,” Sean Gibson says. “To me, it feels that if you don’t have a grave marker, you’re still not resting in peace … We want to make sure that these guys get a final resting place.”over the last few decades to fund headstones and other markers for players buried without them. For many of these players and their families, the cost of a marker had been prohibitive at the time of burial. Thehas provided dozens of markers since 2004.
The grave marker project includes placing signs providing more information about the player buried there. / Courtesy of the Josh Gibson Foundation The work of identifying the players and locating their graves was done by a local social studies teacher named Vince Ciaramella. In the early days of the pandemic, looking for quiet spaces to get fresh air with his family, he turned to cemeteries. To make it feel a bit less macabre, Ciaramella decided to look for specific graves, beginning with his own family members, then moving on to search for local sports figures. Eventually, it became a project for him and his wife and young son.
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