Normal Tweed Webb Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame (Covering the Bases)

BILL MORRISON: Now, when did the Amateur Hall of Fame get started in St. Louis?

NORMAL TWEED WEBB: Well, I was inducted into the Hall of Fame March 21st, but the Hall of Fame was set up—ground work was laid about seven months before that, I would say in the fall of 1973. A fellow by the name of—he's the chairman—Don Gabbert, he said he had a vision, and he told his wife one night that he would like to do something to give recognition to the amateur boys who played baseball in the city of St. Louis. And that's the way it was born.

BILL MORRISON: From that one man.

NORMAL TWEED WEBB: That one man. He got men like Bob Broeg, Bob Burnes, and quite a few men on the Hall of Fame Committee. They are dedicated men. Anytime a group of men get together to honor amateur baseball like that there's no money to be made. To give recognition to these fellows is a tremendous thing. It's a big thing. There's nothing like it in the United States, they say. It's the first one. It's the Greater St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame.