Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project

[1] After Crutchfield, the Project went on to place headstones on the graves of notables like John Donaldson, Candy Jim Taylor,[2] Theodore "High Pockets" Trent,[3] Steel Arm Johnny Taylor, Sam Bankhead, Bobby Robinson, Bill Gatewood,[3] James Edward "Sap" Ivory, Robery "Fuzzy" Garrett, Frank Grant[4] and Dink Mothell.

While the grave marker project depends mostly on small contributions, the group has also received sizeable donations from people like Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf,[1] former player and manager Don Zimmer,[1] and former 8th commissioner of baseball Fay Vincent.

On July 9, 2009, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart alleged that four workers at Burr Oak Cemetery dug up more than 200 graves, dumped the bodies into unmarked mass graves, and resold the plots in a scheme that went back at least five years.

Chicago's Cook County Sheriff's Office created a website to give anyone in the world the ability to search 43,555 photos in a database of marked, identified graves at the Burr Oak Cemetery.

While it is unknown if any Negro league baseball players' graves were involved in the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal, researchers continue work to determine if this is true.