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For
over a quarter century, Dixon, an internationally recognized historian
and author, has worked diligently to bring African-American athletes
into the mainstream of American sports culture. Few can speak on
the history of African-Amercan baseball players, and the history
of the Negor Leagues, as vibrantly or as copiously, or with the
depth of primary source knowledge as Phil S. Dixon. Some men were
born to play baseball, others to be politicians, and still others
to be surgeons or doctors. Dixon was born to research, speak and
to write about the rich and wonderful history of African-American
men in baseball. He lectures about the history of the Negro Leagues,
the greatest African-American Players of all time, and why there
are less African-Americans involved with Baseball now than in the
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A
life-long sports enthusiast, Dixon has authored several
publications including an award winning book entitled,
The Negro Baseball Leagues, a Photographic History,
1863-1955. Dixon's book won the Spitball's Casey Award
naming it, the best baseball book of the year, and captured
the SABR Mcmillan Research award for its groundbreaking
historical depth. His other books include The Monarchs,
1920-1928 Featuring Wilber "Bullet" Rogan,
The Greatest Ballplayer in Cooperstown and Phil Dixon's
American Baseball Chronicles, Volume III, The 1905 Philadeplphia
Giants.
A
knowledgeable and entertaining speaker, Dixon lectures
regularly to colleges, high schools, and community groups,
and is routinely quoted in print and broadcast media.
Formerly in the Public Relations Department of the Kansas
City Royals, Dixon now serves on the Board of Governors
for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
He remains relentless in his pursuit of equality for
African-American athletes in baseball and in sports
in general.
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Dixon,
a native of Kansas City, Kansas, enjoys the distinction of being the great-great-nephew
of former United States Senator Blanch Kelso Bruce. Another Cousin, Blanch
K. Bruce, was the first African-American graduate from the University
of Kansas in Lawrence. Yet another relative, Henry Clay Bruce, wrote the
slave narrative, A New Man, 29 years a slave, 29 years a free man in 1895.
A graduate of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Dixon resides
in Belton, Missouri with his wife Kerry and children.
For
relaxation, Dixon
is the Senior Program Manager for RBI Baseball, (Reviving Baseball in
the Inner City), a Kansas City youth baseball/softball program that serves
over 1,000 urban youths.
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