DALLAS (NCBWA) – Dick Case, retired
Executive Director of USA Baseball, has been named as winner of the 2001
National Collegiate Baseball Writers Wilbur Snypp Award. Case,
a longtime executive with the national governing body for amateur baseball,
promoted college baseball student-athletes for United States summer regional,
national and international programs for three decades. He also was one of
the ringleaders in the evolution of baseball into an Olympic sport and assisted
in the transition of professional baseball stars (many of them from solid
college programs) into the Olympics.
"Dick Case has been a tremendous friend to college and amateur baseball,"
said former NCBWA President Steve Weller, currently Assistant Director of
Public Affairs at Texas-Arlington. "He has been a strong proponent of college
student-athletes and maintaining the quality of college baseball on all
levels. He helped many youngsters to gain quite a bit of national recognition.
He is the 27th recipient of the annual award, which is presented in memory
of longtime Ohio State Sports Information Director and NCBWA founder, the
late Wilbur (Bill) Snypp. Snypp was a noted contributor to the writers'
organization, which was initiated in 1962 (and celebrating its 40th year
in 2001), as well as an officer in the group.
The NCBWA/Wilbur Snypp Award yearly honors a professional for their contributions
to the sport of collegiate baseball. Voting is done by a panel of previous
winners, who include past NCAA World Series directors, College Sports Information
Directors of America Hall of Fame members, decorated media members, and
many others.
ALL-TIME WILBUR SNYPP AWARD
WINNERS |
1975 Wilbur
Snypp, Ohio State 1976 Bill Esposito, St. John's 1977 Phil Langan,
Cornell 1978 John Geis, Southern Conference 1979 Hank Schomber, Georgia
Southern 1980 Bob Culp, Western Michigan 1981 Lou Pavlovich Sr., Collegiate
Baseball 1982 Tom Price, South Carolina 1983 Bob Bradley, Clemson
1984 Robert Williams, Omaha World-Herald 1985 Jerry Miles, NCAA 1986
Larry Keefe, Seton Hall 1987 Tom Rowen, San Jose Mercury-News 1988
Fred Gerardi, KESY Radio, Omaha 1989 Jim Wright, NCAA 1990 Steve Weller,
SIU-Edwardsville 1991 Bill Little, Texas 1992 Kirk Bohls,
Austin American-Statesman 1993 Bo Carter, Southwest Conference 1994 Lou Pavlovich
Jr., Collegiate Baseball 1995 Steve Pivovar, Omaha World-Herald 1996
Gary Johnson, NCAA |
1997 Dave Wohlhueter, Cornell 1998 Allen Simpson,
Baseball America 1999 Alan Cannon, Texas A&M 2000 Jim
Callis, Baseball America 2001
Dick Case, USA Baseball 2002
Russ Anderson, Conference USA
2003 John Manuel, Baseball America
2004 Dana Heiss Grodin, USA Today
Sports Weekly 2005 Dennis
Poppe, NCAA 2006 Mike Montoro,
Southern Miss 2007 Barry
Allen, Alabama 2008 Mike
Patrick, ESPN 2009 Al Chase,
Honolulu Star-Bulletin 2010
Lou Spry, NCAA 2011 Jeremy
Mills, ESPN/D1Baseball.com
2012 Eric Olson, Omaha World Herald
2013 J.D. Hamilton, NCAA
2014 John Sullivan, Rice
2015 David Feaster, Dick Howser Trophy
2016 Ralph Zobell, BYU
2017 Aaron Fitt, D1Baseball.com |
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