John "Buck" O'Neil: The Rookie, His Words, His Voice

by Phil S. Dixon

Overview

In John "Buck" O'Neil, THE ROOKIE, HIS WORDS, HIS VOICE updated and expanded, we revisit the legend's first summer with the Kansas City Monarchs. Utilizing interviews, historic photographs, and actual voice recordings from interviews with O'Neil, you read and hear from a master storyteller as he discusses the Negro American League and its importance as an integral part of the American baseball landscape. Much more than a book about baseball, this publication is a unique oral history, presented for the first time, in O'Neil's authentic voice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765552872
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/06/2022
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Phil S. Dixon is a road warrior, a veracious interviewer, a tireless researcher and writer who has interviewed over 500 players, wives and their offspring for a unique perspective of the American and Negro League baseball experience, works for which he won a SABR MacMillan Award (Society of American Baseball Researchers) for his excellence in historical research. He is best known for his 7 non-fiction books which includes “The Negro Baseball Leagues A Photographs History, 1867-1955,” a Casey Award winner as the best baseball book of the year in 1992.

He is a proud member of SABR, the Missouri Writers Guild, the IBWAA (Internet Baseball Writers Association of America) and serves on the National Advisory Board for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. His work has been praised by a range of luminaries from Fay Vincent “Baseball Commissioner” to Stephen Jay Gould the famous “American Paleontologist.” Dixon is a Humanities Kansas presenter and a past Missouri Humanities speaker. Dixon’s most resent adventure was presenting in over 200 American cities and internationally into Canada with a presentation titled the “Kansas City Monarchs In Our Hometown,” in an effort to improve race relations. In true barnstorming fashion, he drove the entire route that covered 17 states and over 75,000 miles. His presentations and books are a fluid mix for those who enjoy professional journalism that is both humorous and insightful. Phil’s motto is “why bore your audiences and readers with sabermetrics when a touch of humor and non-sports history will suffice.”

Baseball’s quintessential barnstormer is a designation he embraces. His latest release, “The Dizzy and Daffy Dean Barnstorming Tour; Race, Media and America’s National Pastime,” continues that tradition. His writings are illustrated with stories and photographs which familiarize readers with baseball’s forgotten Negro stars through primary source research obtained during his many years of dedication to this topic. In addition to books he owns copyrights for poems and a movie script. He is a true American griot and 40 years of presenting in the Negro League genre hasn’t dulled his pursuit for greater knowledge.