The City of Fort Walton Beach Heritage Park and Cultural Center will host a free public lecture series in honor of the Camp Walton Schoolhouse’s 100th Birthday starting in September 2012. This series will feature key people, organizations, places, and events from the time period the schoolhouse was a working school: 1912-1936. The series is slated to run from September 2012 through August 2013 with lectures scheduled each month.
The ninth speaker in our series is Scott Brown on Friday, April 26th at 6:00 pm. Mr. Brown will give a talk titled "Baseball in Pensacola". Florida has been called a player’s paradise, standing as welcoming host to spring training venues and a supportive season home for countless teams. Pensacola has oft times taken the role as the western gateway to that paradise. Baseball has become passionately entrenched within the citizens and athletes of Pensacola. Whether high school or college player, everyday fan or contracted professional, new to the game or dyed in the wool follower, baseball is the game of Pensacola.
Baseball historian Scott Brown is a transplanted native of Pensacola, Florida and is the President of the Mordecai Brown Legacy Foundation. He is also the Co-Author of Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story, and has been featured in numerous articles surrounding the history of America’s Pastime. Scott serves as the International Director of the Mordecai Brown School of Baseball, while also mentoring young athletes towards personal excellence and goal achievement. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, as well as a Life Member of the Old Timers Baseball Association of Chicago, Minor League Baseball Alumni Association, and the Association of Professional Baseball Players of America.
