Your weekend: Alameda Sports Exhibit
- August 19, 2010
The Second Annual Alameda Sports Exhibit opened at the Alameda Museum this week. Co-sponsored by the museum and curated by Alamedans Dewey St. Germaine and Brian McDonald, it features a collection of sports memorabilia that documents over 100 years of the Island’s sports history, from golf and rowing to the big three (baseball, basketball and football).
The exhibit highlights the accomplishments of athletes who were either raised, lived for a time, or attended high school in Alameda. Featured are a Dick Bartell 1933-34 Louisville Slugger game-used bat, Willie Stargell 1976 Bicentennial game-used bat, a 2009 Jimmy Rollins World Series game-worn road jersey, and an Isaiah Rider Minnesota Timberwolves rookie uniform. Former Encinal Jet Junior Tautalatasi’s 1989 Dallas Cowboys game-worn jersey is also on loan for the exhibit.
An expanded college athletes section rounds out this year’s display selection.
Alameda has a long tradition of fostering youth sports, both through its parks and recreation leagues and at its high schools, with the perhaps predictable result that many young players growing up on local fields, courts and diamonds would nourish hopes of major league careers, and some would actually achieve them. Visiting it is an inspirational detour, and one likely to score points with a young slugger or hoopster with such star aspirations.
More recently, two Alameda women gained a spot at the ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥, East Bay Athletic Hall of Fame – Robyn Crispi and Trini Sanchez-Blumkin (Encinal and Alameda High graduates, respectively) – Sanchez-Blumkin in 2002 for softball and Crispi in 2004 for women’s basketball and softball). Their Hall of Fame plaques are on display this year.
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