Executive Director

KENNY JERKINS, Las Vegas, Nevada kennyjerkins@aol.com

Deputy Director
DAN CUNNINGHAM, Greencastle, Pennsylvania cunnidan@wcps.k12.md.us

EX-EASTERN SHORE LEAGUE PRESIDENT IS DEAD

TOM BROWN: ALL-AMERICAN

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

SALISBURY - Former Eastern Shore League President Tom Brown has died in Palm Harbor, Florida. Born on December 12, 1940 in Laureldale, Pennsylvania, Brown was graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring in Montgomery County in Maryland. The University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Famer was a First-Team All-American outfielder while batting .449 as a Junior for the school in the Spring of 1962 before the Terrapins' wide reciever and defensive back both caught 47 passes and corraled six interceptions as a Senior in the Fall. 

   The 1998 Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball State Championships Final Four Public Address Announcer at Wicomico County Athletic Complex was the Washington Senators' Opening Day starting first baseman in 1963 - they're Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers today. The National Football League second-round draft pick signed with the Green Bay Packers and left the Senators in July in 1963. He was the first athlete to both hit a home run in a Major League Baseball game and play on a Super Bowl-winning team and he's the only athlete other than Deion Sanders to do so. He started at strong safety in three consecutive NFL Championship Games in 1965, in 1966 and in 1967's iconic "Ice Bowl" and in Super Bowls I and II as part of the Packers' famed 1960's secondary with Canton-inducted Professional Football Hall of Famers free safety Willie Wood and cornerback Herb Adderley and with the Green Bay Packers team's Hall of Fame cornerback Bob Jeter. The highlight of his career was his game-saving interception of Don Meredith's pass in the end zone in the closing seconds of the Packers' 34-27 victory visiting the Dallas Cowboys in the 1966 NFL title tilt. Brown finished his career playing for his Green Bay Head Coach Vince Lombardi on the Super Bowl Trophy namesake's final team in Washington in 1969. 

Sources: umterps.com, wikipedia.org and eyewitnessed 1965, 1966 and 1967 NFL Championship Game CBS-TV broadcasts

A BETTER ANSWER - WITHOUT A QUESTION

SUPPORTED SEMI-PRO BASEBALL FOR 22 SEASONS

410-879-8600 or 1-800-346-2517

BEL AIR - A Better Answer provided the Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Information Line as a courtesy from 1991 through 2012 inclusive, helping to create the statewide semi-pro baseball network that we enjoy today. A Better Answer provides 24/7 telemessaging services for the business, commercial, industrial and medical communities. Please consider A Better Answer if in need of such services and contact A Better Answer either at 410-879-8600 or at 1-800-346-2517 or via www.a-better-answer.com - why wait when there's A Better Answer? 

RIPKEN FOUNDATION / FEEDING AMERICA

HONOR CAL BY HELPING TO STRIKE OUT HUNGER

410-952-7920

ABERDEEN - Launched by the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation www.ripkenfoundation.org , the purpose of the Strike Out Hunger campaign is to raise funds that will provide food to people in need. Together with Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, Niagara Cares, Group1001 and the Kevin Harvick Foundation, the Ripken Foundation partnered with Feeding America, their 200 local food banks, 60,000 food pantries and meal programs across the country to help address the issue of food insecurity for underserved kids and families. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact Jennifer Dansicker at 410-952-7920 or jdansicker@ripkenfoundation.org  

GET A GUARANTEED MORTGAGE

50-PLUS YEARS OF FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE

REACH TO ROGER DAWSON FOR DOLLARS

BRUNSWICK - Consider the Brunswick Orioles' four-time Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball State Champion Roger Dawson for your Guaranteed Mortgage. Re-financing, purchases and consolidations all are available through Guaranteed Mortgage, a company with more than 50 years of experience. Call Frederick County-based Guaranteed Mortgage Loan Specialist Roger Dawson at 301-834-8068.

PERSONAL BEST HAS BASEBALL PRODUCTS

CUMBERLAND COMPANY CAN DELIVER STATEWIDE

RUSSELL AND RINEHART ARE READY TO SERVE

CUMBERLAND - Personal Best Athletics is offering deals on balls, bats, spikes, helmets, gloves and catchers' equipment. Custom jerseys and hats can take roughly six weeks. Contact either Ben Russell directly at 301-338-0974 or Dave Rinehart Jr. at 301-729-8711 extension 105 in Cumberland.

POINTSTREAK WORKS, YOU JUST PLAY

905-731-9867

THE LEADER IN REAL-TIME SPORTS STATISTICS

TORONTO - Pointstreak.com, the leader in real-time sports statistics offers technology and products designed to save sports organizations time, money and effort. Contact Kael Herman via either kherman@pointstreak.com or 905-731-9867.

BOARD CAN INTERACT VIA THE INTERNET

ADVISORS MAY MULL ADVICE FROM ALL

YEAR-ROUND FORUM IS OPEN AND ONGOING

BALTIMORE - Judge Kent Boles is chairing Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Advisory Board open discussions online monitored by Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Deputy Director Dan Cunningham. Input is to be accepted from the public. Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Advisory Board members Judge Kent Boles's, Gary Bennett's, Steve Hastings's, Bob Schnebly's and Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball Deputy Director Dan Cunningham's respective e-mail address links
Brewer15@aol.com,
garyb320@gmail.com,

stevehast@comcast.net,
Starlyrara@aol.com,
cunnidan@wcps.k12.md.us

may be copied and pasted to contact them collectively. Consistent with Maryland State open government "sunshine" laws and transparency ideals, effective immediately, any correspondence sent to the Executive Director that is either pertinent to Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball or peripheral to Maryland Semi-Pro Baseball will be shared with the Deputy Director and there should be no expectation of confidentiality in such communications.

Sources: Internet and other media and eyewitness reports