The list of athletes and coaches who failed to win a Man or Sports Star of the Year award over the decades is as impressive as the list of champions.
Author: David Eskenazi
David Eskenazi
Many of the historic images on Sports Press Northwest are provided by resident Northwest sports history aficionado, David Eskenazi. A Seattle native, David has amassed an extensive archive of Seattle, Northwest, and West Coast historic sports photographs, artifacts and ephemera. We draw from this archive to illustrate stories in The Vault, and our weekly Rotation feature, The Wayback Machine. Youll see many unique and evocative representations of our sporting past, many of which have never been seen publicly. You are in for a treat! David enjoys sharing his collection and zeal for Northwest sports history. His historical showcase activities have included displays at numerous museums, historical societies, and community events, including an annual Northwest baseball history display at Mariners FanFest, and working on baseball-themed fund raising events for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Since the early 1990s, The Seattle Mariners have enlisted David to help recognize and illustrate Seattle and the Northwests 120-year baseball legacy. This collaboration has produced historical displays at Safeco Field, including seven 35-foot long historical storyboards surrounding the Safeco Field main concourse, Fred Hutchinson seat end stanchions, and classic early photographs on the suite level, all created for the opening of Safeco Field in 1999. From its opening in 2007 to the present day, David has provided thematic ideas, design elements, images, and scores of original historic Northwest baseball artifacts for the Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest at Safeco Field. David also contributed visual materials, historical consultation and on-screen interviews for documentaries on The Seattle Rainiers, The Spokane Indians, and the Seattle Pilots, and provided images and other inputs for a multitude of books, magazines, web-sites and other media focusing on Seattle, Northwest and West Coast sports history. Recent books he contributed to extensively include SABRs Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest, and Dan Raleys Pitchers of Beer: The Seattle Rainiers Story. David has a keen ongoing interest in sharing stories, expanding and enhancing his collection, and broadening his knowledge and archive of Northwest sports history and memorabilia. If you have questions, memories to share, stories to suggest, or would like to talk to him about selling or trading Seattle and Northwest sports artifacts, please contact him at (206) 441-1900, or at seattlesportshistory@gmail.com
When the print Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down in 2009, the closure threatened to end the Sports Star of the Year awards. But a timely intervention saved the civic institution.
A major change in the Post-Intelligencer Star of the Year awards cameoin 1994 when women were given their own category.
The Seahawks dominated the Sports Star of the Year awards in the 1980s, winning five times after the franchise became a playoff contender in the early years of the decade.
Royal Brougham’s “Man of the Year” awards program evolved into the “Sports Star of the Year” in the 1970s to recognize the increasing number of women in sports.
By the time that Post-Intelligencer columnist Royal Brougham’s Man of the Year program entered its fourth decade, it had become one of Seattle’s top annual events.
In the 1950s, Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Royal Brougham’s Man of the Year award evolved from a “little clambake” into a gala, replete with national celebrity guests.
The 78th edition of the Star of the Year sports awards program is Jan. 25, 2013, at Benaroya Hall. Sportspress Northwest’s Wayback Machine begins a weekly look at all past winners.
Nearly 60 years ago, Washington and Seattle U. played each other for the first time in a basketball game. Several players from that game will be saluted Thursday at KeyArena.
Neither Hal Lee nor Bob Galer made the University of Washington’s All-Century Basketball Team, but they both made first-team All-America under coach Hec Edmundson in the early 1930s.