James Overmyer

James Overmyer is a baseball history author specializing in the Negro leagues. His most recent books are Queen of the Negro Leagues, a biography of Effa Manley, the only woman member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, and Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays, one of only two people in two American professional sports halls of fame. He also is the author of Baseball and the Boardwalk, a team history of the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants.

He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, and belongs to its Negro Leagues, Nineteen Century, Deadball, and Business of Baseball committees. He was a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2006 special committee that voted to induct seventeen persons from the Negro leagues and the black baseball period before the leagues were formed as members of the Hall. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.