News on the Ray Brown Memorial Park Project
Ada Herald tells how Alger city council voted to keep the name of "Alger City Park" before reconvening and returning it to "Ray Brown Memorial Park.", 17 April 2025.
Ada Herald mentions Ray Brown in the significant baseball history of the area in an article about "Dummy" Hoy, 3 April 2025.
Ada Herald highlights Ray Brown Memorial Park updates and funding progress, 20 March 2025.
Joe Schriner describes the work that David Strittmatter went through to obtain funding for Ray Brown Memorial Park, 5 September 2024.
Schriner published his article about his interview with Jerry Cramer in the Bluffton News as well, 6 July 2023.
Joe Schriner writes in the Ada Herald about Ray Brown's early life, drawing from an interview with Jerry Cramer, whose father played with Brown, 6 July 2023.
Craig Kelly writes in the Lima News about the beginning stages of the Ray Brown Memorial Park project, 5 July 2023.
An initial sketch from Aubrey Davis as she worked to create the mural for the Ray Brown Memorial Park, 9 March 2023.
The Lima News shares a presentation from David Strittmatter about Ray Brown's intriguing career with past clippings from newspapers that mention Brown, 6 March 2023.
Schriner writes about how Ray Brown's baseball career began on the Alger town team, 3 March 2023.
Joe Schriner writes in The Ada Herald about his initial discovery that Ray Brown, a baseball hall of famer, grew up in Alger, Ohio, and the town has recognition or mention of him, 31 December 2020.
Interviews and articles
Aubrey Davis, who created the mural that will be front and center of Ray Brown Memorial Park, was interviewed by the Ada Icon. During her interview, she described her design process as well as the symbolism that is present in her work. For an in-depth look into Aubrey's work and process, visit the Ada Icon, or to listen to more about her work, watch the WLIO interview on Hometown Stations.
Ohio Northern University News describes the beginning of the Ray Brown Memorial Park project. Dr. David Strittmatter describes the goal of the project as well as the reasoning behind his motivation for its future. Additionally, Paul Osborne (Alger Village Administrator) describes his excitement and hopes for the project to go further than the initial plans.
The project also included a multi-disciplinary approach with a combination of ONU's history and art departments for the addition of the mural to the project.
For the full article, please visit ONU's news site!
Aubrey Davis poses in front of her mural for the Ray Brown Memorial Park Project.
Aubrey Davis works on her Ray Brown memorial mural.