Marshall Widman - Inducted in 2009
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Marshall Widman was born in Omaha, Nebraska and attended Harrison Elementary School, Dundee Elementary School, Omaha Central High School and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He joined the Air Force in 1968. After leaving the Airforce, he settled in Kansas City where he met his wife Sherry and where he still lives. |
Since the seventh grade, Widman has been inventing products and coming up with innovative ideas. His most successful invention is BallStar, a technique for printing full-color images onto objects curved in more than one direction, such as Christmas ornaments, baseballs, footballs and other sports balls.
Widman has three U.S. Patents along with numerous international patents, copyrights and trademarks for this process. His company, Star Innovations, dba BallStars, has sold specialized printing equipment and licensed the printing process in countries all over the world.
Widman has an impressive collection of baseball memorabilia that he shares with his two sons, Andrew and Jay and his grandson Reece. He enjoys lecturing on "The Process of Inventing" and being an entrepreneur. He now invents and collects in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City.