Upper Peninsula

Tickets are now available for the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet. The 41st annual event is April 28 at The Danforth Place in Escanaba, at 6 p.m. (EDT).

Banquet tickets are $20 and must be purchased by April 24. They are available from Dennis Grall at the Escanaba Daily Press (800-743-0609) and from Dave Lahtinen and Wayne Marshall in Gladstone, Frank Rodman in Hermansville and Seb Rubick in Manistique.

For the full press release, please see the Daily Press article.

August 5, 2011

HANCOCK - For the first time in the history of the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame, more than half of the annual selections are female.

Six women were selected recently when the UPSHF executive council met in Hancock. The group chose 11 people for induction, one more than normal, after four received the majority of votes on the final ballot in the post-1960 division.

A former major league baseball pitcher, two former Big 10 football players and a Big 10 baseball player, perhaps the most accomplished golfer in U.P. history, and two former women's college basketball standouts are among the 10 selections.

The choices were made recently by the UPSHF executive council at Kewadin Casino in St. Ignace, the first time the 23-member group has met at the peninsula's eastern entrance.