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Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame Scholarships
The Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame currently has three scholarships: the Oakland A’s Salute to Youth Scholarship, the Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing Scholarship, and the Beau Venturi Scholarship. Each scholarship is to be used by the student(s) for college tuition. For details on the scholarships, please see below.
Oakland A's Salute to Youth Scholarship
Oakland Athletics logoThe Oakland A's and BASHOF are proud to support higher education for Bay Area students. The Oakland A's Salute to Youth Scholarships were established with the 1987 Oakland A's All-Star pre-game-clinic proceeds being designated to BASHOF. In 2003, the Oakland A's began matching the original two $1,000 scholarships, and recipients now receive $2,000 each. Each year, a scholarship committee reviews numerous applications from East Bay BASHOF Youth Fund grantees wishing to honor a female and/or male participant with the A's Salute to Youth Scholarship award. The scholarship presentations take place during an Oakland Athletics pre-game ceremony.
Beau Venturi Scholarship
Oakland Athletics logoKen Venturi polished his golf game as a member of San Francisco's Lincoln High golf team and won the City championship three times. After winning the California state title three times, Venturi turned pro in 1956, won 14 PGA Tournaments and dramatically won the 1964 U.S. Open. His fame has grown in recent years as a pioneer golf commentator. Venturi was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 and has been a featured participant and honorary chair of the BASHOF Golf Classic since its inception, in 1996.
In his honor and as a memorial to his wife, the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame has established the Beau Venturi Scholarship Fund. These scholarships are awarded annually to the male and female winners of San Francisco's City High School Golf Championship. Recipients are each awarded $1,000 toward their college education. The scholarships are given to the winners at our BASHOF Golf Classic, held every October at The Olympic Club.
Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing Scholarship

2010 Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing winners

2010 Art Rosenbaum Scholarship Presentation at AT&T Park: (L-R) Jeremy Unger, Lucas Levine, Lauren Mahaney, Cindy Viola and Logan Hedges.

Art Rosenbaum's journalism career began as a prep writer when he was in high school and continued for 60 years at the San Francisco Chronicle. Art believed that the school newspaper that reaches all students is the most important extra-curricular activity on campus. When he retired in 1990, he was concerned that economic downsizing in education had eliminated many school papers. As an incentive to renew interest his friends and family created a fund at his retirement party, and the entire proceeds from the evening, $44,000, went into a scholarship fund. This fund became the core for the annual Art Rosenbaum High School Sports Writing Scholarships.
The Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing Scholarships are given to three individuals each year: $1,000 for 3rd place, $1,500 for 2nd place, and $2,500 for 1st place. A scholarship presentation is held during the pre-game ceremonies of a San Francisco Giants game each summer. Art Rosenbaum's granddaughters, Cindy and Jenn Viola, present the checks to the winners.
The 2010 Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing Scholarship winners are:
Information and applications are sent to all Bay Area high schools, and entries are due by April 15 each year. The Art Rosenbaum Sports Writing Scholarship contest is open to Bay Area high school juniors and seniors who have written sports-related articles in their high school publications. Entries are judged on overall journalistic quality by a panel of veteran sportswriters. Students should contact their college advisor or journalism teacher about entering their work. Each high school may nominate two students for the scholarship (send only one article per student).
To nominate a student for the scholarship, send a letter from the student's academic advisor, teacher or newspaper advisor on school letterhead that includes the following:
  • School contact's phone number, address and email address
  • Student's phone number, address and email address
  • Name of article for the contest
  • An original or photocopy of the submitted article as published in the student paper, with byline, publication date and paper's name. Please highlight the article's title if more than one story appears on the page.
Send entries to:
Art Rosenbaum Scholarships
c/o BASHOF
201 Spear Street, Suite 1150
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415.296.5607
Fax: 415.704.3232
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