Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project

The Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project is an effort started by Peoria, Illinois anesthesiologist Jeremy Krock and with support of the Society for American Baseball Research to put a proper headstone on the graves of former Negro League baseball players.

Founded in 2004, the Project started when Dr. Krock contacted members of the Society for American Baseball Research after he discovered there was no headstone on the grave of Jimmie Crutchfield, a player who grew up in Krock's childhood home of Ardmore, Missouri.

After Crutchfield, the Project went on to place headstones on the graves of notables like John Donaldson, Candy Jim Taylor, Theodore "High Pockets" Trent,Steel Arm Johnny Taylor, Sam Bankhead, Bobby Robinson, Bill Gatewood, James Edward "Sap" Ivory, Robery "Fuzzy" Garrett, Frank Grant and Dink Mothell.

Some of the cemeteries where the group has installed stones include Burr Oak Cemetery in Cook County, Illinois, Springdale Cemetery in Peoria, Illinois, East Ridgelawn Cemetery in Clifton, New Jersey, Mt. Zion Cemetery in York County, Pennsylvania, and Greenwood Cemetery and Allegheny Cemetery which are both in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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