Education & Experience

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 with Information Technology (IT) training.

Author/Editor:

• The Negro Leagues Book (1994)

Black America Series by Arcadia:

• Black Baseball in Chicago (2000)
• Black Baseball in Detroit (2000)
• Black Baseball in Kansas City (2000)
• Black Baseball in Pittsburgh (2001)

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)
  

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 present. 

McFarland & Company: Associate Editor

• Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal, from 2008 to present.

The National Pastime Museum at: http://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/

• Featured writer, from 2013 to present

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