Research & Media

Black Baseball's Heyday: Capturing an Era in Art and Words

How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History

Simulating Satchel: A What-If History of Integrated Major League Baseball in 1934

The Integration of Minor League Baseball: A History and Player Register, 1946 - 1959

The Negro Leagues' 1931 Homestead Grays: The Color of Greatness

Tragedy in Black Baseball: Early Deaths of 136 Negro Leaguers, 1871 - 1950

Wasn't Any Maybe So: Poems from the Life of Newt Allen

Bud Fowler Beyond the Box Score, Second Edition

From Setbacks to Success: The 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes

He Was A Legend: An Oral History of Satchel Paige's Final Game at 59

Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Minoso and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's ML Teams

Leon Day: A Baseball Life from the Negro Leagues to the Hall of Fame

Memories and Dreams, Official Magazine of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, Magical Maverick

Opening the Door for Jackie: The Untold Story of Baseball's Integration

Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball

The Integration of Minor League Baseball: A Hisoty and Player Register, 1946 - 1959

Baseball's Two-Way Greats: Pitching/Batting Stars from Ruth and Rogan to Ohtani

Memories and Dreams, Official Magazine of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, Opening Daylight

Memories and Dreams, Official Magazine of the National Baseball of Fame & Museum Stars in the East & West

Methuselah in Cleats: Satchel Paige

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Yearbook, Silhouettes in the Shadows

The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants

The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History

The Wright side of History: The Life and Career of Johnny Wright

Black Stats Matter (2023) FOREWORD

Foreword by Larry Lester

Memories and Dreams, Official Magazine of the National Baseball of Fame & Museum, With Deliberate Speed

Pug, Fireball and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa

The Baseball 100

The Stars Shone on Philadelphia: The 1934 Negro National League Champions

The Wendell Smith Reader: Selected Writings on Sports, Civil Rights and Black History

Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America

Black Baseball in Living Color: The Artwork of Graig Kreindler

Integrated Baseball in Kansas during the Sport's Era of Segregation, 1865 - 1945

Pete Hill: Black Baseball's First Superstar

Spottswood Poles: A Baseball and American Legend (2022) FOREWORD

Foreword by Larry Lester

Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War

The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era

The First Negro League Champion: The 1920 Chicago American Giants

A Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace and the Negro Leagues

Baseball and the Hall of David: Legendary Barnstorming Teams, 1915-1956

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 10

From Rube to Robinson: SABR's Best Articles on Black Baseball

Perspectives on 42: Jackie Robinson

The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues: Essay and Research for Overdue Recognition

When the Monarchs Reigned: Kansas City's 1942 Negro League Champions

2nd Annual Women in Baseball Conference: Celebrating African American Women in Baseball, Rockford University

Baltimore Black Sox: A Negro League History, 1913-1936

Chicago White Sox Negro League Centennial Day

Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays: A Biography of the Negro Leagues Owner and Hall of Famer

J. L. Wilkinson stood out as the only White owner in the first official Negro League - ESPN The Undefeated

Memories and Dreams: The Official Magazine of the Hall of Fame, Opening Day 2020

MLB is Considering Adding the Negro Leagues to its Official History - Ben Lindbergh in TheRinger.com/mlb

Negro League Stats No Longer Stuff of Legend by Michael Clair

Negro Leaguers and the Hall of Fame: The Case for Inducting 24 Overlooked Ballplayers

Out & About Greater Wilmington: A Centennial Salute to Judy Johnson

Pride of Smoketown: The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords

Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles

Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles, Centennial Edition

Rube Foster was the Big Man Behind the First Successful Negro Baseball League - ESPN The Undefeated

SABR 50 at 50: The Fifty Most Essential Contributions to the Game, Smokey & the Bandit

The Athletic by Marc Carig

The Base Ball Palace of the World: Comiskey Park

The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues: Historians Reappraise Black Baseball

Black Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962

Brunson's Black Baseball, 1858-1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners & Umpires; volumes 1, 2 & 3

Dream Fulfilled's Centennial Hall of Fame statute series

Dream Fulfilled's Negro Leagues 1920-2020 Centennial Team postcard set

Dream Fulfilled's Negro Leagues Mount Rushmore postcard set

Gentle Black Giants: A History of Negro Leaguers in Japan

Jackie Robinson Says: Robinson's Surprising, Lengthy, Multifaceted Career in Journalism

Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, The Life of Ernie Banks

Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player

The Newark Eagles Take Flight: The Story of the 1946 Negro League Champions

Baseball's Alternative Universe: Cuban Baseball Legends

Baseball's Business: The Winter Meetings: 1901-1957, a SABR publication

Biz Mackey, A Giant Behind the Plate: The Story of the Negro League Star and Hall of Fame Catcher

Legendary Ballparks: Moments and Memories from America's Most Storied Stadiums

The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington and Ray Bartlett

The National Pastime: Steel City Stories

The Page Fence Giants: A History of Black Baseball's Pioneering Champions

Baseball in Northwest Iowa

Baseball Research Journal - Oscar Charleston: The 1915 "Hothead" Incident and Posthumous Mythmaking

Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, the Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 9

Ed Bolden and Black Baseball in Philadelphia

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Harrisburg, PA

No-Hitters, a SABR publication

The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance

Baseball's Alternative Universe: Cuban's Baseball Legends

Baseball's No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching's Greatest Feats

Christie's The Golden Age of Baseball Memorabilia, October 19th edition (three articles)

Daddy's Scrapbook: Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball Leagues, a Daughter's Perspective

J. L. Wilkinson and the Kansas City Monarchs

Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball's Most Significant Player

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Kansas City

Legacy: The Enduring Impact of the Negro Leagues on Modern Baseball and American Society

The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star, Ted Strong Jr.,

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 8

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Pittsburgh

Joe Black: More Than A Dodger

Last Train to Cooperstown: The 2006 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees from the Negro Leagues Baseball Era

The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915 - 1955: A Devil's Bargain (2015) FOREWORD

Foreword by Larry Lester

The Negro Southern League: A Baseball History, 1920-1951

A Special Gift from God: Baseball

Before Jackie: The Negro Leagues, Civil Rights and the American Dream

Black Ball and the Broadwalk: The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, 1916 - 1929

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 7

Black Baseball - Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar

Jackie & Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Line

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Detroit

Baseball State by State: Major and Negro League Players, Ballparks, Museums and Historical Sites

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 6

Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line

Historian's Corner in the National Pastime Museum (ongoing since 2013)

Ongoing contribution

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Newark

Baseball's War Roster: A Biographical Dictionary of Major and Negro League Players Who Served, 1861 to Present

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2

Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Cleveland

Amazing Baseball Heroes: Inspirational Negro League Stories

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 4, Numbers 1 and 2

Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella

Cuban Star: How One Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Indianapolis

Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Praising My People: Newspaper Sports Coverage and the Integration of Baseball in Wichita, Kansas (Winter 2010-2011)

Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball

The Cambridge Companion to Baseball

The History of the Black Memorabilia Movement

The Immortal: An Art Collection of Baseball's Best

The Kings of Casino Park: Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932

The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues

The Right Time: John Henry "Pop" Lloyd and Black Baseball

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2

CurveBall: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone, The First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League

Early Black Baseball in Minnesota: The St. Paul Gophers, Minneapolis Keystones and Other Barnstorming Teams of the DeadBall Era

Forgotten Heroes of the Negro Leagues and Latin Baseball

Integrating Cleveland Baseball: Media Activism, the Integration of the Indians and the Demise of the Negro League Buckeyes

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Birmingham

Mysteries from Baseball's Past: Investigations of Nine Unsettled Questions

Our White Boy: the Jerry Craft Story (2010) FOREWORD

Foreword by Larry Lester

Playing in Shadows: Texas and Negro League Baseball

Professional Football Researchers Association's The Coffin Corner. The Re-integration of Pro Football Through 1962, (Nov/Dec 2010)

The Forgotten Leagues: Black Baseball's Ebony Sluggers: Will & Skill calendar

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 2, Number 2

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 1 and

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Pittsburgh

Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sports & Society in the Age of Negro league ball

The Forgotten Leagues: Black Baseball’s Flame Throwers: Fire & Desire calendar by DMD

The Integration of Major League Baseball: A Team by Team History

Black Ball Tales

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 1, Number 1

Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal, Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 2

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Chicago

Princoirs: Official Memoirs of Prince Joe Henry, Ex-Negro Leaguer

The Forgotten Leagues: Volume 3: Black Baseball’s 3rd All-Star Team calendar by DMD

The Mogul, Eddie Gottlieb: Philadelphia Sports Legend and Pro Basketball Pioneer

The Negro Leagues in New Jersey: A History

We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

African American Pioneers of Baseball: Biographical Encyclopedia

After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes

Arcadia’s Black America Series: Kansas City

Black Baseball: Out of Season

Forbes Field: Essays & Memories of the Pirates’ Historic Ballpark, 1909-1971

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Portsmouth, Virginia

Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, & the Color Line

Ruling Over Monarchs, Giants & Stars: Umpiring in the Negro Leagues & Beyond (2007) FOREWORD

Foreword by Larry Lester

Satchel Paige and Company

South of the Color Barrier: How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration

The Chicago American Giants

The Forgotten Leagues: Volume 2: Black Baseball’s 2nd All-Star Team calendar by DMD

The National Pastime: Review of Baseball History, #27

When to Stop the Cheering: The Black Press, the Black Community and the Integration of Professional Baseball (2007) FOREWORD

Foreword by Larry Lester

Willie Wells: "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues

A Game of Inches

Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball

Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro League Ballparks

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Kansas City

Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African-American Baseball

The Forgotten Leagues: Volume 1: Black Baseball’s 1st All-Star Team calendar by DMD

A Negro League Scrapbook

Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference Booklet in Chicago

Swinging for the Fences: Black Baseball in Minnesota

The Forgotten Leagues: The Great Teams, calendar, Series V by DMD

Withers’ Negro Baseball Leagues, editor

Editor role noted

Baseball in Portsmouth, Virginia

Baseball in St. Louis

Baseball in Wichita

Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution

Out from the Shadows: Negro League Baseball in America

Road Trips SABR collection of articles from annual conventions. Leroy Satchel Paige, pages 138-39

The Forgotten Leagues: 1940 to 1950, calendar, Series IV by DMD

Beyond the Shadows of the Senators: The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball

Black Baseball: A History of African Americans & the National Game

Dem Little Bums: The Nashua Dodgers

I Will Never Forget: Interview with 39 Former Negro League Players

Oscar Rico’s Baseball Legends

Stolen! A History of Baseball Stealing

The Best Man Plays

The Best Man Plays: Major Baseball and the Black Athlete, 1901-2002

The California Winter League: America’s First Integrated Professional Baseball League

The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball

The Forgotten Leagues: 1930 to 1940, calendar, Series III by DMD

The Integration of Baseball in Philadelphia

The Negro Leagues, 1869 – 1960

The Brooklyn Dodgers

The Forgotten Leagues: 1920 to 1930, calendar, Series II, by DMD

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Baseball Desk Reference

BaseballLibrary.com articles on ballplayer

Cool Papas and Double Duties: The All-Time Greats of the Negro Leagues

How to Do Baseball Research

The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giants

The Forgotten Leagues: before 1920, calendar, Series I by DMD

The National Baseball Hall of Fame Desk Reference

Baseball’s Other All-Stars

The Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversion with 66 more Baseball Heroes

Catching Dreams: My Life in the Negro Leagues

Every Other Sunday: The Story of the Birmingham Black Barons

Glory Days of Summer: The History of Baseball in Oklahoma

Home Run: My Life in Pictures, Hank Aaron

The Negro Leagues Autograph Guide

Traces: A Publication of the Indiana Historical Society

World Series programs: Official Major League Baseball Program (1998, 1999)

Guest writer for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper

Guest writer

Middle Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1900-1948

Pomegranate Major League Baseball Desk Calendar

The Mohawk Colored Giants of Schenectady

36 biographies for Major League Baseball’s web page; www.majorleaguebaseball.com

Biography contribution

Comprehensive biography of Jackie Robinson for the New York Mets Opening Day program

Biography contribution

Los Angeles Dodgers Media Guide

Official Major League Baseball Calendar

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture, (1997 Jackie Robinson)

The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball

The Indianapolis ABC’s: History of a Premier Team in the Negro Leagues

The King of Swat

Play Ball! The Indianapolis ABC's by Traces: Indiana Historical Society

Unions to Royals: The Story of Professional Baseball in Kansas City

African-American Sports Greats: A Biographical Dictionary

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: 1992-1995 Supplement for Baseball, Football, Basketball & other sports

Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908

Puerto Rico’s Winter Leagues: A History of Major League Baseball’s Launching Pad

Twenty Years Too Soon. Reprinted in 1995, FOREWORD by Larry Lester

Foreword by Larry Lester

American National Biography

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues

Dictionary of American Negro Biography

Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles

Playing America’s Game: The Story of Negro League Baseball

The Forgotten Players: The Story of Black Baseball in America

The Negro Leagues: 40 Years of Black Professional Baseball

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: from 1989-1992 and Supplement

Green Cathedrals: The Ultimate Celebration of Ballparks

The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History, 1867-1955

When the Game was Black and White

World Book Encyclopedia

Josh and Satch: The Life and Times of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige

The Ballplayers (1990), and Baseball Chronology Supplement

The Pittsburgh Crawfords: The Lives & Times of Black Baseball’s Most Exciting Team!

The Negro Leagues, pp 2575-2623, The Baseball Encyclopedia

Black Ball, chapter 22 for Total Baseball Encyclopedia Guide

BlackBall Stars: Negro League Pioneers

Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball

Satch & Me (2006) Lester's experience at Satchel Paige's last major league game in 1965

Includes Lester's personal experience

The National Pastime by SABR (several years)

www.Baseball-Reference.com Read press release HERE.

African American Museum at Fair Park (Dallas, TX) — Guest Curator

Applebee's International (Overland Park, KS)

Associated Press Sports Editors — Wendell Smith Red Smith Award

Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication

Baylor University — Andy Cooper & Rube Foster interview

Berry College (Rome, GA)

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute — co-host with Charles Barkley

Birmingham Public Library — Pride & Passion

Black Entertainment Television (BET)

Bladen County Public Library (Elizabethtown, NC) — Pride & Passion

Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center (Kansas City, MO)

Chicago Baseball Museum

Chicago White Sox — Double Duty Classic, 2008 & 2014

Chicago White Sox — Negro Leagues Centennial Celebration

CNN (Atlanta, GA)

Columbus (MS) Convention & Visitors Bureau — Sam Hairston Field Dedication

Detroit Tigers — Negro League Weekend Celebration

ESA Designs (Abilene, KS) — NLBM static exhibits

ESPN and ESPN2 (Bristol, CT)

Exhibits USA (Kansas City, MO)

Forty Acres & A Mule

FOX Sports Net

Gates BBQ Restaurants (Kansas City, MO)

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)

Harper Woods Public Library (MI) — Pride & Passion

HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

Hillcrest High School (Chicago, IL) — Crowning Achievements exhibit

Home Box Office (HBO)

Indiana University (IUPUI) — with Michael Wilbon

Josh Gibson Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA)

Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas

Kentucky Fried Chicken (Louisville, KY)

KIPP Academy (Kansas City, MO) — Black History Month

Lockport Public Library — Pride & Passion

Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation — with Dave Roberts and Jerry Hairston Jr.

Major League Baseball (New York, NY)

Major League Baseball Properties (New York, NY)

Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI)

Museum of Kansas City (MO)

Museum of Texas Tech University — We Are the Ship exhibit

Muskegon Museum of Art (MI) — We Are the Ship

National Archives of Central Plains Regions

National Association of Supervisors for Business Education (Topeka, KS)

National Museum of American Jewish History — Chasing Dreams

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (Kansas City, MO)

New York Mets

Oak Park Public Library (IL) — Pride & Passion

Peachtree Restaurants (Kansas City, MO)

Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Poughkeepsie Public Library (NY) — Pride & Passion

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith

R.E. Hunt Museum & Cultural Center (Columbus, MS)

Romeoville Public Library (IL) — Jackie Robinson Legacy

Saint Xavier University (Chicago, IL)

Smith-Kramer Fine Arts — Stamps of Greatness exhibit

Southwestern Oregon Community College (Coos Bay, OR)

Stigall Museum (Humboldt, TN) — four exhibits

Temple University Libraries

Texas Rangers (Arlington, TX)

The Living Century (PBS)

The Museum of Bus Transportation (Hershey, PA)

The National Pastime Museum (virtual)

The State Museum of Pennsylvania

The Stonesong Press, Inc.

Turner Broadcasting System (Atlanta, GA)

UMB Bank (Kansas City, MO) — Currency of Change exhibit

United States Postal Service Advisory Board — Rube Foster stamp

University of Memphis — Pride & Passion

University of Miami — NASSH Conference

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire — Pride & Passion

Wheaties, General Mills (Minneapolis, MN)