Osbie was a longtime leader in the Mathews-Dickey Boys Club and as director of the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program.

Savage distinguished himself in an 18-year career through 1987 in which his Mathews-Dickey Knights won two Heine Meine championships, four in the Bell Leagues and three in the Tandy League. The Knights were state semipro runners-up in 1970 and champions in 1973. Both times, they were representing Missouri at the NBC Tournament in Wichita, Kansas. The Knights took the Afro-American title in 1977 and the Tournament of Champions crown in 1979.