John Holway

From BR Bullpen

A prolific writer, John Holway has been writing books about baseball for over three decades. His works have often been heavily reliant on anecdotes, many of which have later been found to be incorrect. On the other hand, he has been in the forefront of compiling Negro League statistics and rebuking other myths about the leagues. He has written six books about the Negro Leagues, most notably The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues making him one of the major writers on the topic. He also wrote a 1954 book on Japanese baseball ("Japan is Big League in Thrills"), the first English-language book on the subject. In 1988 he won the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the year with "Blackball Stars"

Holway served as a lieutenant in the Korean War, then was an economics analyst for Voice of America in addition to his baseball writings.