Forwards Written For:

Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants & Star: Umpiring in the Negro Leagues & Beyond by Bob Motley with Byron Motley. Sports Publishing L.L.C., Champaign, IL, 2007

When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball by Dr. Brian Carroll. Routledge Publishing, 2007.

Winner of the McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award for the author of the best articles on baseball history or biography.

Introduction Written For:

20 Years Too Soon: Prelude to Major-League Integration Baseball Revised edition by Quincy Troupe, Jr.  A Missouri Historical Society Classic Reprint, 1995.

Articles Have Appeared In:

Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues, edited by Dr. Leslie A. Heaphy, McFarland Publishing, 2007.

• Leroy “Satchel” Paige: The Mystique and Milestone

• The Historical Satchel Paige: True Stories and Tales

• J.L. Wilkinson: “Only the Stars Come Out at Night”

• Satchel Paige Chronology

• Milestones, Achievements and Records from Kansas City’s Blackball Past

Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams and Games, edited by Dr. Leslie A. Heaphy, McFarland Publishing, 2006.

• Introduction

• The East-West Classic

• Timeline of African American Achievements in Chicago Baseball

• Chicago Players in the Major Leagues

• East-West Game Highlights

1998 Major League Baseball’s Official World Series Program

• The King of Swing: Josh Gibson, the Negro Leagues “Sultan of Swat.”

1999 Major League Baseball’s Official World Series Program

• Groundwork: 75 years ago, the Kansas City Monarchs and the Hilldale Club squared off in the 1st Colored World Series.

1997 Jackie Robinson 50^th Anniversary Celebration Commemorative Edition game program: N.Y. Mets vs L.A. Dodgers, April 15, 1997 at Shea Stadium

• The Life of Jackie Robinson: His Hardship and Triumphs

Road Trips: A Trunk load of Great Articles from Two Decades of Convention Journals, edited by Jim Charlton, Society for American Baseball Research Convention, 2004.

• Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige.

8^th Chicago, IL - 2005:

• America’s Ebony Giants
• Rube Foster: A Gem of a Man
• Black baseball’s National Showcase: the East/West Classic
• The Rhodes Scholar of Managers: Dave Malarcher
• Chicago’s Time of African American Achievements in baseball.

• Leroy “Satchel” Paige: Da’ Ma
• Paige Walked the Bases Loaded – Fact or Myth?
• My Birthday Present
• J.L. Wilkinson: Only the Stars Come Out at Night
• Kansas City’s First World Champions
• This Day on the History Paiges
• Kansas City’s Timeline of African American Achievements in baseball.

10^th Portsmouth, VA - 2007

Virginia born Cooperstown Hall of Famers

• Ran Dandridge: Hot Corner Houdini
• Leon Day: Pitcher by Day, Hitter by Night
• Jud Wilson: Suicidal Superstar

11th Willowbrook, IL - 2008

• Minoso Minoso: Cuban Comet
• Satchel Paige vs. Minnie Minoso
• The Radcliffe Brothers: Doubty Duty & Alex the Great