Graham will be recognized for his meritorious service to baseball and will get the William J. Slocum Memorial Award. To Spahn will go the Sid Mercer Memorial Award as the chapter's player of the year.

A crowd of 1400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

The 53 -- year old Shea, a prominent corporation lawyer with a sports background, is generally recognized as the man most responsible for the imminent return of a National League club to New York. Named by Mayor Wagner three years ago to head a committee that included James A. Farley, Bernard Gimbel and Clint Blume, Shea worked relentlessly.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city. The departure of the Giants and the Dodgers to California left New York with only the Yankees.

Despite countless barriers and disappointments, Shea moved forward. When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise. The Continental League never got off the ground, but after two years it forced the existing majors to expand.

The New York franchise is headed by Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson. A big-league municipal stadium at Flushing Meadow Park is in the works, and once the lease is signed the local club will be formally recognized by Commissioner Ford C. Frick. Shea's efforts figure prominently in the new stadium.