John B. Holway - Society for American Baseball Research
Feb 16, 2011 · John B. Holway (1929-2024) researched baseball for more than eight decades and few may boast of as long and noteworthy a contribution to baseball research. Looking at baseball beyond America’s major leagues, he wrote the first book in English on Japanese baseball, Japan Is Big League In Thrills, in 1954.
In Memoriam: John Holway - Society for American Baseball …
Dec 17, 2024 · A pioneer in researching baseball in the Negro Leagues and Japan, which earned him acclaim as a recipient of SABR’s Henry Chadwick Award and Bob Davids Award, Holway died on December 5, 2024, at the age of 95 in Springfield, Virginia. John Bartlett Holway was born on November 12, 1929, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, to Edward and Frances Holway.
The Baseball Guru - John Holway's Baseball Page
Has been researching baseball since 1944. Holway saw his first Negro League game -- Satchel Paige's Monarchs against Josh Gibson's Grays -- in Washington in 1945.
Henry Chadwick Award: John B. Holway – Society for American …
Jun 15, 2011 · JOHN B. HOLWAY (1929–2024) has been researching baseball since 1944. Few, if any, may boast longer or more noteworthy contributions to baseball research. Looking at baseball beyond America’s major leagues has been his specialty.
PIONEERS: John B. Holway - ourgame.mlblogs.com
Jun 18, 2024 · Holway has lived to see his pioneering study of Negro Leagues stats, made fuller through the years, embraced as official by MLB. In his 2001 Complete Book of Baseball’s Negro Leagues: The Other Half of Baseball History , he wrote, “Black baseball history remains a separate ghetto outside the mainstream history of white baseball.
The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues: The Other …
Apr 1, 2001 · Pieced together from unimagined hours of research, John Holway has found a way to bring the Negro Leagues back to life in a scholarly work of amazing depth and throughness. It is all here, year by year line-ups, with batting and pitching numbers.
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John Holway - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com
Dec 20, 2024 · A prolific writer, John Holway has been writing books about baseball since 1944. 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 debunking other myths about the leagues.
Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers Hardcover - amazon.com
Jan 1, 1988 · A young John B. Holway saw his first NLB game in 1943. And years later, Holway the writer & researcher brought the game back to life in a series of articles and books. Originally published in 1988, Blackball Stars is a biography of 27 of the greatest players & executives in the history of baseball.
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Voices From The Great Black Baseball Leagues: Holway, John B ...
Mar 21, 1992 · John Holway, who has done more than anyone to gain recognition for the Negro Leagues and to help their most deserving stars gain their rightful places in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, crisscrossed the country in the late 1960s and early 1970s seeking out the surviving veterans of the old Negro Leagues and putting their stories on tape; he ...
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DiMaggio’s Mysterious Plunge. by John B. Holway | by John …
Apr 17, 2018 · John Holway is one of my oldest friends in baseball, and not only because he is 88. He wrote the first book in English on Japanese baseball, Japan Is Big League in Thrills, in 1954. His Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues (1975), an oral history, remains a monument in the field.
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