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**MALDEN EAST SCHOLARSHIPS**
GRADUATES OF MALDEN EAST LITTLE LEAGUE WHO GRADUATE FROM MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL ARE ELIGIBLE FOR TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED IN THE NAME OF TWO GENTLEMEN WHO, BEFORE THEIR PASSING, HAD BEEN LONG TIME MEMBERS OF MALDEN LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL.
THE GORDY BARBRICK SCHOLARSHIP HONORS A MAN WHO STARTED IN THE MALDEN CENTRAL LITTLE LEAGUE IN ITS FIRST YEAR AND SPENT THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS DEVOTED TO THE CHILDREN OF MALDEN CENTRAL LITTLE LEAGUE. A LONG-TIME MANAGER OF THE MAJOR LEAGUE ATHLETICS, HE AND HIS WIFE WERE ALSO CONSTANT SPECTATORS AT PEEWEE GAMES. GORDY PASSED AWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 1983 SEASON, BUT HIS TEAM WENT ON TO WIN THE MALDEN CENTRAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN HIS MEMORY.
THE SECOND SCHOLARSHIP IS IN HONOR OF JIM TRINGALI, ANOTHER THIRTY YEAR VETERAN OF MALDEN LITTLE LEAGUE. JIM PASSED AWAY IN 2001. HE HAD SERVED IN NUMEROUS BOARD POSITIONS OVER THE YEARS, INCLUDING A STINT AS PRESIDENT, AND MANAGED OR COACHED THE EXPOS, RANGERS AND, MOST RECENTLY, THE DOLPHINS. HIS FORTHRIGHT APPROACH AND DEDICATION TO TEACHING BASEBALL ARE SORELY MISSED BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.
MALDEN HIGH GRADS MAY APPLY FOR THESE SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH THEIR HIGH SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELOR.
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