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Request a speaker from the ASHF for your next event

Dear Program Chairman,

Are you looking for an interesting speaker? Score with a speaker from the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame.

Our speakers can entertain and inform your members about Atlanta sports legends, great moments in Atlanta sports, and how they are preserving sports history for future generations of sports fans. Best of all, they are free!

Created in 2003 as a 501c(3) non-profit, the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame has inaugurated twelve Atlanta area sports icons. The inaugural Class, inducted in June, 2005, included homerun king Hank Aaron, Braves manager Bobby Cox, Georgia Tech football coach Bobby Dodd, legendary golfer Bobby Jones, Falcon linebacker Tommy Nobis and Hawks basketball star Dominque Wilkins.

The 2006 class includes heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holifield, Olympian Wyomia Tyus, Braves pitcher Phil Nikro, Atlanta Black Cracker “Red” Moore, Tech coach Bobby Cremins, and legendary sportswriter Furman Bisher.

Nominations for the 2007 class open October 1 and close November 30, 2006. Nomination forms and procedures for your sports enthusiasts can be found at www.AtlantaSportsHallofFame.com.

To schedule one of the speakers on the back, please contact Cheryl Stephenson by e-mail, cstephenson@numail.org, or phone, 770-254-8352 with your requested speaker and potential date(s).

If you would like for one of our Board Members to come out to your event, please request a speaker here.

 

Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame

Speakers Bureau

 Larry Winter, Founder and President, Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. Great athletes are focused, disciplined, value teamwork and are motivated to succeed. The same can be said of Larry Winter, President and Founder of the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. Winter has combined a passion for sports history and memorabilia with his love of Atlanta to create the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. Hear how Winter turned his dream into an all volunteer organization that is honoring Atlanta sports heroes, remembering great moments in Atlanta sports history, and preserving the past for future generations of sports fans.

James A. Riley. Jim Riley is the foremost authority on baseball’s Negro Leagues, and author of numerous books about the Negro Leagues, including the landmark The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. He has appeared on radio, television documentaries, and presented “Celebrating the Negro Leagues” in venues ranging from the Smithsonian Institute to Atlanta’s King Middle School.

 Carolyn Serra. Carolyn Serra is the director of the Braves Museum and Hall of Fame at Turner Field, a position she’s held for 9 years. The museum has welcomed more than 700,000 visitors since opening its doors in 1997, and is recognized as the most successful baseball museum in the major leagues. She speaks on “Braves History 101.”

 Tim Darnell. Tim Darnell is an Atlanta-based writer and editor with more than 20 years of professional journalistic experience. Currently the editor of Southern Political Report, Darnell is the author of The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball, the only book ever written about the most successful minor league baseball team in history.

 Joel Alterman. Joel Alterman’s love of baseball led to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the 1954 Atlanta Crackers. Using his 30+ years of marketing expertise from IBM and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, he organized the two-day event to honor the anniversary of the winning season of his favorite boyhood team.

 Corey Kessler.

Cheryl Stephenson. Cheryl Stephenson is a retired public relations executive who serves on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame. With the organization since its inception, she shares the behind-the-scenes story of the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame -- its programs, inductees and vision for the future.

 
   
   

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