Education & Scholarship

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, with minors in Finance, Computer Science and Mathematics - Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri. More information can be found at LinkedIn

• Fast-Trac New Venture Program by the Ewing Kauffman Foundation.
• Effective Board Service – Partnerships in Policy, Strategy & Leadership by the Bloch School of Business & Public Administration, University of Missouri at Kansas City.
• How to Assess Nonprofit Financial Performances by Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
• Mentoring the 100 Way by the 100 Black Men of America, Inc.
• Several grant writing classes.
• Certified Risk Management classes.
• Certified Project Management for Information Technology (IT).

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Author/Editor:

• The Negro Leagues Book (1994) with Dick Clark
• The Negro Leagues Book, Volume 2: The Players (2020) with Wayne Stivers

Black America Series by Arcadia:

• Black Baseball in Chicago (2000) with Sammy Miller & Dick Clark
• Black Baseball in Detroit (2000) with Sammy Miller & Dick Clark
• Black Baseball in Kansas City (2000) with Sammy Miller
• Black Baseball in Pittsburgh (2001) with Sammy Miller

Other Books:

• Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953  (2002) -The National Showcase was winner of The Sporting News-SABR Research Award & the Robert Peterson Recognition Award.  Also a finalist for the Casey award.

• Baseball’s First Colored World Series (2006)

• Rube Foster in his Time . . . (2012)
• Black Baseball in New York City: An Illustrated History, 1885 - 1959 (2017)
• Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, Extended Version, 1933 - 1962 (2020) 
• The Negro Leagues Book, Volume 2: The Players, 1862 - 1960 (2020)
• Caged Champions: Colorful Firsts in U.S. Sports, 1855 - 2023 (2024)

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: Senior Editor​

• Discover Greatness (yearbook) 1992-94 & 
• Silhouettes (quarterly newsletter) 1990-95.

Society for American Baseball Research: Senior Editor

• Negro Leagues Committee newsletter, The Courier, from 2006 to 2022. 

McFarland & Company: Associate Editor

• Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal, from 2008 to 2020.
• Can U Read Judge Landis? - Fall, 2008

The online National Pastime Museum 

• Featured writer, from 2013 to 2016

National Baseball Hall of Fame publications

• With Deliberate Speed: The 1950s saw the Reintegration of the White Major Leagues, Memories and Dreams - Induction, 2023
• Silhouettes in the Shadows: The Negro Leagues made the dream of night baseball a reality - Yearbook, 2024
• Stars in the East and West: The Annual NL East-West All-Star Classic - Memories and Dreams - Spring 2024
• The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball - May 25, 2024

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