Robert Huculak, also from Manitoba and now living in Toronto, is working on a documentary film on Negro Leagues ballplayers in Manitoba. In August 2005 Huculak brought [Dirk Gibbons] and [Armando Vasquez] to Manitoba to shoot footage in Winnipeg and Brandon. They threw out the first ball at a Goldeyes game on Aug. 27, 2005, followed by a trip to Brandon to shoot footage at Kinsmen Stadium.

The nominations to the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame were submitted in August 2005. Lois Bentley nominated Dirk Gibbons and the 1948-49 Greys teams; Lil Lowe -- whose late husband [Ian Lowe] was player-manager for the Greys in 1948-49, and a player in 1950-51 -- and her family nominated the 1948-51 Greys teams; and Bob Huculak nominated Armando Vasquez. All the nominations were approved by the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame for induction June 3, 2006.

In recent years, Brandon has acquired a well-deserved reputation as a progressive city because of initiatives such as a strong smoking bylaw, now applied on a province-wide basis; free bus tickets for social assistance recipients and more recently Grade 7 and 8 students who travel between schools for shops and home economics classes; a pesticide bylaw; and the advocacy of green measures with the Association of Manitoba Municipalities and the Manitoba government. The City of Brandon's support for the induction of the Brandon Greys, and for Vasquez and Gibbons, adds to this legacy by honouring an important part of our history and the people who contributed to it.