I recently chatted with Jeremy Krock, the founder of the Negro League Baseball Grave Marker Project to see what projects the NLBGMP has in the pipeline. I also wanted to ask him about the possibi...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/tragic-lives-in-new-grave-marker-project-efforts/
Editor’s note: Here’s another slice of prime Creole Pete Robertson, following the first entry here. For this one, we jump ahead some to Pete’s arrival in New York City following his move in...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/creole-pete-the-sequel/
Editor’s note: More than two years ago, I wrote this article for The Louisiana Weekly newspaper about how the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project has provided a grave stone for “Creol...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/the-story-of-creole-pete-part-1/
Another follow up on the life, career and legacy of John Bissant, Negro Leagues great and arguably the greatest all-around athlete New Orleans has ever produced. For some earlier posts, check out...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2023/12/26/wrapping-up-the-john-bissant-story/
Editor’s note: I recently wrote an article for The Louisiana Weekly newspaper here in New Orleans about the very last Negro League World Series, which was held in 1948. One game of the series w...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/the-last-negro-world-series-a-sons-perspective/
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this, but I need to go ahead with it, quite unfortunately … Many of us in the Negro Leagues research and fandom community have consistently expressed dis...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/the-hall-of-fame-goes-silent/
This is a fairly short follow-up post to my previous ones (here and here) about John Bissant, his family and his grave in New Orleans’ Carrollton Cemetery. … There’s been some confusion and...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/clearing-up-a-few-john-bissant-mysteries/
Editor’s note: The following essay was written and graciously submitted by my Facebook buddy and fellow baseball historian Johnny Haynes. It’s a pretty fascinating and saddening look at how b...
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been in contact with Charisse Wheeler, a New Orleanian and the granddaughter of local Negro Leagues great John Bissant. I originally broached the subject ...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2023/09/02/negro-league-family-celebrates-nola-legend/
Here’s a bunch of pics from the 2023 SABR Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference a couple weeks ago in Detroit. The first set are from the opening reception at historic Hamtramck Stadium. (For i...
https://homeplatedontmove.wordpress.com/2023/07/29/scenes-from-malloy-2023/