Parade Scheduled and More!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen , The 81 year wait is over! !
On October 14th in conjunction with the Darby Historical Commission and their annual Octrolleyfest Festival we will be having the first Championship Parade in the Philadelphia area in over 20 years!
Each Year the DHC runs the Trolley festival celebrating the local rails and Delco History. This is a perfect marriage with the Hilldales since it will be the 81 anniversary of their championship victory over the Monarchs. It is also celebrating John Drew's involvement with the local area transit, he was the 2nd owner of the Hilldales.
We are looking for volunteers and assistance with the parade and ceremonies. I will let everyone know when a startup meeting will be.
I am currently in conversations with Ed Rendell to be a speaker at the dedication and with Roadways who is sponsoring a traveling Negro League exhibit to be there that day.
This should be a spectacular day honoring our heroes!!!!!!

Since my last post there has been a plethora of activity.
Biz Mackey, Louis Santop and Ben Taylor were nominated to Baseball's Hall of Fame, making it 8 Hilldales enshrined in the hallowed halls of baseball.

The Phillies recognized Biz at their annual Jackie Robinson night in 4/11, Dan Baker gave a wonderful speech on Hilldale and Biz's enshrinement.

On 3/17/06 the State of Pa's historical Commission Approved our Marker! We will be sending in our paperwork later this week.

on 4/20 The Hilldale Project hosted a Night of Negro League Baseball with Stanley Glenn and Harold Gould at the Darby Library. Joe Mitchell was kind enough to share a audio interview he has acquired of Judy Johnson from 1987. A very moving interview.

We were also featured on 4/19's Comcast 's Daily News Live where I spoke about the Hilldales and Biz Mackey with Stan Hochman and Mike Barkhann.

We will be featured on Fox 29's Sports Final on 5/7 at 10.30pm where Billy Vargus interviews Stanley Glenn and Ed Bacon about Hilldale and Negro League baseball. A must see!