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  1. 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
  2. Frank Mangiola Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Frank Mangiola of Skyline College and Canada College being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 14, 2011. Plaque includes image of Mangiola and a brief biography: "You could make a pretty good argument that Frank Mangiola is the embodiment of community college soccer on the Peninsula. In 35 years as a head coach, he spent 25 of them at Skyline and Canada. Combined with earlier work at Ohlone in t...

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    Frank Mangiola Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  3. Joe Greenbach Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Joe Greenbach of Sequoia High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 9, 1999. Plaque includes image of Greenbach and a brief biography: "Joe Greenbach became a big-time basketball star too soon. If he had come into his prime 20 years later, the NBA would have been a real option. The Sequoia High School, Menlo College and Santa Clara University great was drafted by the...

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    Joe Greenbach Sports Hall of Fame plaque
  4. Mark Speckman Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Mark Speckman of Carlmont High School and Menlo College who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on June 21, 2007. Plaque includes image of Speckman and a brief biography: "Who would have guessed it? Certainly not his football coaches at Carlmont High School in the early 1970's. Mark Speckman was under-sized but feisty. And there was one other thing: He had no hands, the result of...

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    Mark Speckman Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  5. Peter Diepenbrock Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2014 - Plaque, Award

    Peter Diepenbrock Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2014. Plaque includes image of Peter Diepenbrock and a brief biography: "For Peter Diepenbrock, basketball is much more than a game; it's a vocation. A standout player at Burlingame and later at Menlo College, he moved on to coaching after graduating from UCLA. He coached and played in Denmark during two separate stints, a total of six years. At one point there, he coached the Danish nationa...

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    Peter Diepenbrock Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque
  6. Ray Solari Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Ray Solari being inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 25, 1996. Plaque includes image of Solari and a brief biography: "Ray Solari, head coach of the Menlo College football program, became a fixture at the South County private school during his we years there. Solari began his tenure with the Oaks when Menlo was a junior college, the only private two-year school in California. / His Oaks became ...

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    Ray Solari
  7. Richard "Rink" Babka Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2017 - Award

    Richard "Rink" Babka Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2017. Rectangular brushed metal plaque attached to laminate wood grain board with copper colored brads. Hole drilled in top center of wood portion. Peninsula Sports logo in upper left corner of metal portion - green trophy cup surrounded by blue stars - "2017 Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame." Photo of Richard Babka in upper right corner of metal inset. Interior background, man with white hair, r...

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    Richard "Rink" Babka Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2017
  8. Sara Fulp Allen San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015 - Plaque, Award

    Plaque commemorating Sara Fulp Allen of Half Moon Bay High School and Menlo College 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 Sara Fulp-Allen crouching down wearing a blue wrestling uniform at a wrestling match. A brief biography is also on the front, "Sara Fulp Allen is part of a new breed. Female wre...

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    Sara Fulp Allen San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame Plaque, 2015
  9. Vern Sterling Sports Hall of Fame Plaque - Plaque, Award

    Wood and acrylic plaque commemorating Vern Sterling of Sequoia High School who was inducted into the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame on May 22, 1997. Plaque includes image of Sterling and a brief biography"Vern Sterling was one of the finest all-around football players ever produced in San Mateo County. As a prep at Sequoia High in Redwood City, he was a two-way lineman who could dominate a game all by himself. After serving in the U.S. Mar...

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    Vern Sterling Sports Hall of Fame plaque

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