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).
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: A Dream Deferred! – May 25, 2024
- Opening Daylight: Hall of Famers Leon Day and Satchel Paige Rewrote History in Negro League Openers – Memories and Dreams – April, 2025
- Magical Maverick: Bill Veeck’s Innovative Spirit Nearly Integrated the Game During World War II – Memories and Dreams – Summer 2025