Established | 1976 |
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Location | 801 Shipyard Drive, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 302.425.3263 |
Coordinates | 39°43′55″N75°33′50″W / 39.7320°N 75.5638°W |
Type | Sports museum |
Executive director | Scott Selheimer |
President | Chuck Durante |
Public transit access | DART First State bus: 12 |
Website | https://desports.org/ |
The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame was founded in 1976. Al Cartwright, who helped found it, was its first president [1] and was inducted to its hall of fame in 1980. [2] The current museum building was constructed in 1993.
The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame is a member of the International Sports Heritage Association. [3]
The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame contains the Izzy Katzman Sports Library, [4] named after a 1993 inductee. [5]
A complete list of inductees to the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame is as follows: [6]
William Aloysius McGowan was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1925 to 1954. McGowan founded the second umpire school in the United States. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992, the first person born in Delaware so honored.
The aims of the Football Australia Hall of Fame are to celebrate and highlight the achievements of retired players and other participants who have contributed significantly to the game. These are made up of either Australian and/or non-Australian footballers, managers and other participants who have become significant figures in the history of the game in Australia. New members are generally added each year.
The National Sports Media Association (NSMA), formerly the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, is an organization of sports media members in the United States, and constitutes the American chapter of the International Sports Press Association (AIPS).
Ronald Ludington was an American figure skating coach and pair skater. With Nancy Rouillard Ludington, he was the 1960 Olympic bronze medalist, 1959 World bronze medalist, and a four-time U.S. national champion.
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Joseph Patrick Campbell was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) from 1977 through 1981 for the New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins. In 1992, Campbell was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame. Campbell also taught physical education at Ambassador University (TX) in the 1990s.
Dennis Leroy Johnson was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and Buffalo Bills. He played college football at the University of Delaware and was drafted in the thirteenth round of the 1973 NFL Draft.
Steven Craig Taylor is a former minor league baseball player and Delaware politician.
Franklin Bradford Shakespeare is a former American competition rower, Olympic champion and naval officer.
John C. Gregory Jr. was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (1959–1965), Villanova University (1967–1969), and the University of Rhode Island (1970–1975), compiling a career college football record of 87–57–4. He was the athletic director at Bowling Green State University from 1982 to 1994.
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David "Dave" Charles Johnson is an American former competition swimmer and 1968 Mexico City Olympic competitor. He graduated Yale Medical School and became an orthopaedic surgeon, specializing in sports medicine.
Bob Hannah is a former college baseball coach who served as head coach of the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens baseball team from 1965 to 2000.
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Bill Skinner was an American javelin thrower. He held the national title in 1970 and 1971 and won a silver medal at the 1971 Pan American Games.
William Collick is a former American football and wrestling coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Delaware State University from 1985 to 1996, compiling a record of 81–48. Collick was also the athletic director at Delaware State from 1996 to 2000. After leaving Delaware State, Collick coached high school football, as head football coach at Sussex Technical High School in Georgetown, Delaware from 2000 to 2009 and Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, Delaware from 2010 until his retirement following the 2017 season.
William Andrew Sadler, alternately spelled "Saddler", and nicknamed "Bubby", was an American Negro league shortstop between 1934 and 1944.
Albert Thomas Cartwright was an American sportswriter. He spent 1947 to 1968, then 1971 to 1983, working with The News Journal and its predecessors, winning awards for his "A La Carte" columns.
Robert "Bob" Erwin Mattson was a competitive swimmer for North Carolina State and an ASCA Hall of Fame swim coach who founded Delaware's highly successful Wilmington Swim Club, serving forty years as coach from 1954 to 1994.