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Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1998

Also 1998 Beaver Island Homecoming · 23rd Annual Bud McDonough Memorial Softball Tournament

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TypeEvent
Dates1998-08-08 – 1998-08-09
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1998-08-08 – 1998-08-09
Kind
Celebration
Followed by
Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 2002
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritagereligion
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The 1998 Beaver Island Homecoming ran August 8-9, centered on the “23rd Annual Bud McDonough Memorial Softball Tournament,” a nine-team, double-elimination event won by Crown Motor.

Program

Softball. Nine teams played Friday in double-elimination format. The Sunday finish: Crown Motor 1st, Grey Gables 2nd, TDS Telecom 3rd. Bob Williams of Crown Motor was Batting Champion (.882); Mike Perdue of TDS won the Ed Maudrie Memorial Home Run Derby with 3 home runs. The report closes by inviting readers back “to the Park on Homecoming Weekend, 1999!”

Entertainment. The Harbor View Motel advertised “Blue Rider” playing for Homecoming weekend.

Evidence limits

No dinner, dance venue, or organizing body is reported for 1998 in the held issues; the tournament report focuses entirely on softball. The same August 1998 issue contains an unrelated item on the “7th Annual Odawa Homecoming Pow Wow” at Harbor Springs, sponsored by the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians – a distinct event, not part of this series, and excluded here.

Open questions

  • Was a parish dinner or dance held in 1998? No held issue reports one.

See also

Sources

  1. "Don't Forget Homecoming Sunday August 8th-9th," with music by "Blue Rider - back by popular demand." Read in the in-repo data/ tree. An advance advertisement. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1998-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1998-08_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Reports "The 23rd Annual Bud McDonough Memorial Softball Tournament Homecoming Weekend" with nine teams playing a double-elimination format on Friday: Crown Motor finished 1st on Sunday, Grey Gables 2nd, and TDS Telecom 3rd; Bob Williams of Crown Motor was Batting Champion (.882); Mike Perdue of TDS won the Ed Maudrie Memorial Home Run Derby with 3. Read in the in-repo data/ tree. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1998-09_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held twenty-six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1998-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Homecoming weekend, 1998”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-homecoming-1998/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1998, Harbor View Motel advertisement. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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