Dennis Grall - Class of 2002

(Escanaba)

Sports Editor of the Escanaba Daily Press (1970-80 and since 1984), Grall also was a sportswriter with the Green Bay Press-Gazette (1980-84).  He has received numerous writing awards from the Associated Press and Michigan Press Association, and in 2001 became the first U.P.  writer selected president of the Michigan Associated Press Sports Editors Association.  He has been executive secretary of the U.P.  Sports Hall of Fame since 1992 and also served on the executive council from 1974-80.  He coached youth baseball for 15 years, served as president of the Escanaba Babe Ruth League and on the Escanaba Little League board of directors.  He was co-founder of a men's slowpitch softball league, organized a men's modified fastpitch league, and is a member of the Delta County Softball Hall of Fame.  He also revived the Delta County Quad Club golf tournament in 1997.