James Overmyer

James Overmyer writes and lectures on baseball history, primarily on black baseball. He is a member of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research and was a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame special committee that elected Manley and other black baseball figures to the Hall. Overmyer is the author of Queen of the Negro Leagues, Black Ball and the Boardwalk: The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, and Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays: A Biography of the...See more

James Overmyer writes and lectures on baseball history, primarily on black baseball. He is a member of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research and was a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame special committee that elected Manley and other black baseball figures to the Hall. Overmyer is the author of Queen of the Negro Leagues, Black Ball and the Boardwalk: The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, and Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays: A Biography of the Negro Leagues Owner and Hall of Famer. See less