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  1. Alexis Felts Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Alexis Felts of Sacred Heart Prep being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 4, 2002. Plaque includes image of Felts and a brief biography"Alexis Felts helped to put Sacred Heart Prep on the national and state sporting map in the 1990s. As a basketball player at the small Atherton Catholic school, she was part of a dynasty. Her junior and senior year teams went 75-0 and captured Central Coast Sectio...

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    Alexis Felts Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  2. Anne Warner Cribbs Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Anne Warner Cribbs of Menlo-Atherton High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 7, 2000. Plaque includes image of Warner Cribbs and a brief biography: "Anne Warner Cribbs, a Burlingame native, was one of the nation's top swimmers at Menlo-Atherton High School as a teenager. She was a member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic 400-meter medley relay team that won a gold medal. A...

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    Anne Warner Cribbs Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  3. Barb Beainy Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Barb Beainy being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 25, 1995. Plaque includes image of Beainy and a brief biography: "Barb Beainy, Burlingame High alum, was a role model for the Peninsula's young female basketball players in the 1980's. She led her 1988 prep team to a 36-2 record and the first California state championship ever by a San Mateo County or Central Coast Section girls' unit. An hono...

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    Barb Beainy
  4. Barry Bonds Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Barry Bonds of Serra High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 19, 1992. Plaque includes image of Bonds and a brief biography: "Barry Bonds is one of the finest baseball players in Serra High School and San Mateo County history. Bonds, who played football and basketball, hit 22 home runs during his prep career and carried a .405 batting average. In three years at Arizona State Univers...

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    Barry Bonds 2009.030.020
  5. Bill & Bucky Kahler Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bill & Bucky Kahler being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 28, 1991. Plaque includes image of the Kahlers and a brief biography: "Bill and Bucky Kahler were lengendary all-around athletes at San Mateo High School in the late '40s and early '50s, earning All -Conference honors in baseball, football and basketball. / Remarkably, both brothers would later achieve fame in professional baseball, ...

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    Bill & Bucky Kahler
  6. Bill Wilkin Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bill Wilkin of Capuchino High School and Hillsdale High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 22, 2006. Plaque includes image of Wilkin and a brief biography: "Bill Wilkin did not stray far from his Millbrae roots. As a standout athlete, he attended Capuchino High School in the late 1950's. After a stint at Utah State university where he was a baseball regular, he wound up teaching an...

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    Bill Wilkin 2009.030.189
  7. Bob Peterson Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bob Peterson being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 25, 1995. Plaque includes image of Peterson and a brief biography: "In the late 1940's, Sequoia High in Redwood City found itself with a basketball force to be reckoned with: Bob Peterson. / A 6-5 center who savored physcial contact, Peterson established himself as one of the dominant big men in the west Bay Area during his heralded prep day...

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    Bob Peterson
  8. Bob Wendell Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bob Wendell of Menlo-Atherton High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 31, 1994. Plaque includes image of Wendell and a brief biography: "Bob Wendell, a basketball/baseball player at Menlo-Atherton High School in the mid-1950s, became one of the most successful cagers ever to play for a San Mateo County school. / In 1959 and 1960, Wendell, who also attended Menlo College, was a guard...

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    Bob Wendell Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  9. Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne of Burlingame High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 5, 2001. Plaque includes images of the Van Alstyne brothers and a brief biography: "Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne became one of San Mateo County's most athletically gifted brother acts in the 1940s and early 1950s. Both were three-sport stars who attended Burlingame High School and Menlo College. Bruce, a...

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    Bruce and Byron Van Alstyne Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  10. Bryan Thomasson Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2016 - Plaque, Award

    Bryan Thomasson Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2016. Plaque commemorating Bryan Thomasson of Jefferson High School and Skyline College being inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame on June 8, 2016. The plaque is printed on silver-colored metal with a 3" x 2.5" photograph mounted to the upper right hand corner. Metal and photograph are mounted beneath acrylic with gold-colored decorative brads onto an mdf wooden base covered in a...

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    Bryan Thomasson Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2016
  11. Bud Presley Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Bud Presley being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 28, 1991. Plaque includes image of Presley and a brief biography: "Bud Presley make his mark on basketball on the Peninsula as a coach at Menlo College during the '70s. / His gritty Menlo teams won 266 games and five Coast Conference championships during his 12-year tenure there. / On three occasions, his sturdy Oaks played for the Califor...

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    Bud Presley
  12. Carlmont High School, 1962 - Negative

    Carlmont High School, 1962. Black and white negative shows basketball courts outside Carlmont High School in Belmont, California. Several empty basketball courts appear in the foreground with free throw lines painted onto blacktop. The High School appears in the distance extending across the upper portion of the image. A flagpole with the American and California flags can be seen at upper right. Undeveloped land in the San Carlos Hills appears be...

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    Carlmont High School, 1962
  13. Carol Rische Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Carol Rische of Crestmoor High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 4, 2002. Plaque includes image of Rische and a brief biography: "Carol Rische was ahead of her time. She was a pioneer women's basketball phenomenon in the late 1970s when she dominated her youthful peers as a power forward/center at Crestmoor High School in San Bruno. Later, she did the same thing at UC-Davis. A three...

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    Carol Rische Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  14. Charles Johnson Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Charles Johnson being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 17, 1989. Plaque includes image of Johnson and a brief biography: "Charles Johnson, a graduate of Sequoia High School in Redwood City, took his Peninsula basketball training to the ultimate. He played and often started on two NBA championship teams. / Johnson, at 5 foot 11, twice was named Most Valuable Player of the South Peninsula Athle...

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    Charles Johnson
  15. Charles Lowery Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Charles Lowery Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque. Plaque commemorating Charles Lowery of Ravenswood High School being inducted into Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame, sponsored by The San Mateo County/ Silicon Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau, on June 13, 2012. Plaque includes image of Lowery and a brief biography: "Quick, fluid and physical, he was one of the greatest basketball players ever to come out of San Mateo County high schools. A 6...

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    Charles Lowery Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  16. Chi Johnson San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015 - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Chi Johnson of Menlo-Atherton High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on July 23, 2015. The plaque is silver acrylic mounted with golden screws onto a dark wooden base. Plaque includes image of Johnson sitting on a grass field with her left leg out in front of her and her right knee bent. She is wearing a blue and yellow track suit. A brief biography is also on the front, "In terms of shee...

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    Chi Johnson San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015
  17. Cindy Galarza Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Cindy Galarza of Hillsdale High School and College of San Mateo who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 21, 2007. Plaque includes image of Galarza and a brief biography: "As a kid growing up in San Mateo in the 1970's, Cindy Galarza learned the rough and tumble game of basketball on outdoor courts in her neighborhood. She went on from there to great success at Hillsdale high...

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    Cindy Galarza Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  18. Clyde Conner Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Clyde Conner of South San Francisco High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 19, 1992. Plaque includes image of Conner and a brief biography: "Clyde Conner is an alumnus of South San Francisco High School and the College of San Mateo. He may be unique in the annals of San Mateo County high school and community college athletics. Primarily a basketball player during those formative ye...

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    Clyde Conner Sports Hall of Fame Plaque 2009.030.046
  19. Colette Chiamparino Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Colette Chiamparino of Sacred Heart Prep who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 9, 1999. Plaque includes image of Chiamparino and a brief biography: "Colette Chiamparino is one of the finest all-around female athletes in San Mateo County history. During her career from 1987-91 at the small Catholic school in Atherton, she played four sports: Volleyball, basketball, softball,...

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    Colette Chiamparino Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  20. Dean Prince Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Dean Prince of South San Francisco High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 18, 1993. Plaque includes image of Prince and a brief biography: "Dean Prince was a city kid who made a big splash in the suburbs in the early 1950's. Prince, a native San Franciscan, moved to South San Francisco. Reared by his mother, he entered South San Francisco High as a freshman and had an immediate imp...

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    Dean Prince 2009.030.147
  21. Debbie Dyson San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015 - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Debbie Dyson of Hillsdale High School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on July 23, 2015. The plaque is silver acrylic mounted with golden screws onto a dark wooden base. Plaque includes headshot image of Dyson wearing a light-colored knit sweater against a blue background. A brief biography is also on the front, "In the early 1980s, Debbie Dyson came onto the San Mateo County girls' basketball ...

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    Debbie Dyson San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015
  22. Doc Scheppler San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015 - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Doc Scheppler of Burlingame High School and Pinewood School being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on July 23, 2015. The plaque is silver acrylic mounted with golden screws onto a dark wooden base. Plaque includes image of Scheppler celebrating with a girls basketball team. He is wearing light-colored slacks and a blue sweater, the basketball players are wearing a white uniform with green numbers high...

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    Doc Scheppler San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015
  23. Don Delbon Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Don Delbon of Jefferson High Schoolwho was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 22, 2004. Plaque includes image of Delbon and a brief biography: "In the early 1950s, Don Delbon was one of the most honored prep athletes in San Mateo County. A multi-sport athlete at Jefferson High School, he achieved his greates notriety in basketball. He played both basketball and baseball at Orego...

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    Don Delbon Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  24. Donovan Blythe Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2022 - Plaque, Award

    Donovan Blythe Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2022. MDF wooden plaque with a walnut laminate finish. Front has beveled acrylic rectangle over a printed silver metal dedication affixed to plaque with brass-colored brads in the corners. Top left corner has the Peninsula Sports 2022 Hall of Fame logo with a gold trophy, blue ribbon and blue stars. Bottom center has the San Mateo County Historical Association logo with the dome for the San Mat...

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    Donovan Blythe Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2022
  25. Drew Shiller Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2013 - Plaque, Award

    2013 Drew Shiller Sports Hall of Fame Plaque. Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Drew Shiller of Burlingame High School and Stanford University who was inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame on June 11, 2013. Plaque includes image of Shiller and a brief biography: "Arguably the most honored prep athlete in the modern history of San Mateo County, he was named California's high school Male Athlete of the Year in 2005, and for good re...

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    2013 Drew Shiller Sports Hall of Fame Plaque

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