David Steele

David Steele has been a professional sports journalist for more than 35 years. He has written for the Sporting News , AOL, the Baltimore Sun , the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday , and has contributed to ESPN's The Undefeated , USA Today and the NAACP's The Crisis magazine. He is the co-author of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Temple) and of Four Generations of Color , the autobiography of pioneering baseball scout and sports agent Miles McAfee. He has won writing...See more

David Steele has been a professional sports journalist for more than 35 years. He has written for the Sporting News , AOL, the Baltimore Sun , the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday , and has contributed to ESPN's The Undefeated , USA Today and the NAACP's The Crisis magazine. He is the co-author of Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Temple) and of Four Generations of Color , the autobiography of pioneering baseball scout and sports agent Miles McAfee. He has won writing awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists. A graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, he serves on the advisory board for the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at his alma mater. See less