Lou Boudreau

Lou Boudreau is known as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. A seven-time All-Star, Boudreau was the player-manager for the 1948 Cleveland Indians, leading them to a World Series victory while earning MVP honors. Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970, Boudreau passed away on August 10, 2001.Russell Schneider was a sportswriter and columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer for more than thirty years before becoming a freelance writer. He covered the Indians on a daily basis for fourteen years, from 1964 to 1977. Schneider is the author of several books, including The Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia, Amazing Tales from the Cleveland Indians Dugout, and The Boy of the Summer of ’48.Jack Brickhouse is a Hall of Fame broadcaster, most known for being the play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Cubs from 1948–81. He received the Ford C. Frick Award in 1983, presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to a broadcaster for “major contributions to baseball.” He passed away in 1998, at the age of eighty-two. Chuck Heaton was a sports columnist who spent fifty years at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Upon his passing in 2008, the Press Club of Cleveland established the annual Chuck Heaton Award, bestowed upon the journalist who best exemplifies the sensitivity and humility that, along with his journalism heart, were traits exhibited by Chuck Heaton during his exemplary career as a sports writer at the Plain Dealer.