Hi Susan,

Dr. Ray Doswell, the curator for the NLBM would be good, he is a SABR
member and you could just contact him through the museum.

Joe Posnanski, from the Kansas City Star, who wrote The Soul of
Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America. He is an amazing
guy.

Dr. Leslie Heaphy, Kent State - SABR member - info should be on the
web site to contact. Obviously it is during the school schedule, and
coming from Ohio, so it might be dicey.

Larry Lester, SABR Negro League committee chair, from Kansas City.

Phil Dixon, http://www.americanbaseballchronicles.com/about.htm, also
from KC. Authored several books about the Negro League.

Lloyd Johnson, W. Lloyd in the SABR directory - first director of the
Negro Leagues Museum, also in KC. Interesting speaker.

Ralph Christian, works for the Iowa State Historical society, in a
good speaker.

Kevin Johnson, from Broken Arrow, OK. Done a lot of good research on
Negro Leagues lately. Very impressed with him.

That is probably a good starting point, I tried for the most part to
stay local to our area. If you have a bigger transportation budget
there are lots of other names.

The people above are all historian type people, to contact former
players I would work with Ray Doswell or Bob Kendrick of the Negro
Leagues Baseball Museum.


Hope this helps, if you have further questions feel free to contact me.

Mike Webber



--- In SABRmonarchs@yahoogroups.com, Susan Messer
<susanmesser1952@...> wrote:
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> As a new member of this group, I want to let you all know that Fort
Scott Community College (Fort Scott, KS) will be hosting a traveling
exhibit in April 2010.  "Pride and Passion: the African American
Baseball Experience" is sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the American Library Association.  I am beginning to
think about speakers and events to go along with this.  Can anyone
make some suggestions or recommendations?
>  
> Susan Messer
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