From BR Bullpen

Larry Lester is a Negro Leagues baseball researcher who co-founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO and served as its director of research for a time. He is co-chair of SABR's Negro Leagues committee, and a member of the Negro Leagues Research Authors Group (NLRAG).

He has authored and co-authored several books about baseball, including the following:

• The Negro Leagues Book (co-edited with Dick Clark), Society for American Baseball Research, 1994
• Black Baseball In Chicago (with Dick Clark and Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, 2000
• Black Baseball In Detroit (with Dick Clark and Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, 2000
• Black Baseball In Kansas City (with Sammy J. Miller), , Arcadia Publishing, 2000
• Black Baseball In Pittsburgh (with Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, 2001
• Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953, University of Nebraska Press, 2002
• Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs, McFarland and Co., 2006

[edit] Related sites

• Larry Lester's home page