Larry Lester

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Larry Lester (born 1949) is a Negro Leagues baseball researcher, author, and lecturer. He co-founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO and served as its director of research for a time. He is co-chair of SABR's Negro Leagues committee, and a member of the Negro Leagues Research Authors Group (NLRAG). He is founder and president of NoirTech Research, Inc., and co-chair of the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference.

He was honored with the Henry Chadwick Award in 2016.

He has authored and co-authored several books about baseball, including the following:

  • The Negro Leagues Book (co-edited with Dick Clark), Society for American Baseball Research, Cleveland, OH, 1994
  • Black Baseball In Chicago (with Dick Clark and Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2000
  • Black Baseball In Detroit (with Dick Clark and Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2000
  • Black Baseball In Kansas City (with Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, , 2000
  • Black Baseball In Pittsburgh (with Sammy J. Miller), Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2001
  • Black Baseball's National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933-1953, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2002
  • Baseball's First Colored World Series: The 1924 Meeting of the Hilldale Giants and Kansas City Monarchs, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2006
  • Rube Foster in His Time: On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2012.
  • Black Baseball in New York City: An Illustrated History, 1885-1959, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2017. ISBN 978-0-4766-7046-1

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