The Antioch Historical Museum’s Sports Legends Program Co-Founders, Alumni and volunteers would like to take this opportunity to thank Joyce, Eric and Inger Snelson for your recent very generous donation to the Antioch Sports Legend Program and Museum in the in the memory of your husband, and father Coach Bill Snelson HOF 2010. We are…
64 years ago this week, February 21, 1957, the Antioch Quarterback Club met at Club Marchetti for the first Gala Sports Night. The Master of Ceremonies was Bob Fouts, the Forty-Niner play by play announcer and father of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts. Future ASL Hall of Fame inductees Worth Shaw and Nick…
2015 Deer Valley High School’s volleyball star, Jordan Ewert has continued his career by playing professional volleyball in Spain for the Ushaia Ibiza team. As a four year starter at DVHS, Ewert was recognized as 2015 East Bay Volleyball Player of the year and selected as Bay Valley Athletic Leagues MVP twice, in 2014 and…
Nicholas “Nick” Rodriguez November 30, 1927 – November 24, 1995
In Memory of Edmund “Babe” Atkinson February 7, 1908 – January 6, 2001
Thanks to Co-Founders Tom Menasco and Eddie Beaudin, the Antioch Sports Legends are benefiting from CoCo Farm’s generosity. For nearly a year Menasco and Beaudin made presentations to the owner/operators of CoCo Farms before an agreement was made last October. This was just in the nick of time as with all of 2020 events being…
Bill Snelson was born in Glenn County, CA. After graduating from Corning High, he was attending Shasta College when the Korean War started and he left to serve a 4 year stint in the Air Force. He was honorably discharged in 1954 and returned to school, where he met Joyce Hill, and they married in…
1932 St Mary’s Football Team Captain- Mayor of Antioch 1950-1954
Alvin “Kelly” Martin 1924 – 1995 Not a day goes by that we don’t think about you. We miss that kind gentleness about you and that twinkle in your eye. Those kind heartfelt words you had, your ability to always say the right thing and point us in the right direction. Congratulations on being inducted…
For the second consecutive year the Antioch Sports Legends has been awarded a certificate of honor for our distinguished service to our community by Supervisor Diane Burgis. The award was mailed to the Sports Legends and a follow up Zoom ceremony featuring all the recipients was held on December 10th at 3:00pm. As the Antioch…
