So three years after I started the research, and nearly a year after I finished the writing, my book on Satchel Paige finally is about to be released.  Random House’s official publication date is June 9.

I am new to blogging and not sure what anyone visiting this site wants to hear. I will take my cues from you.

Want to know about the process — what it is like researching a book like this, writing it, selling it to a publisher, or going through the endless editing?

Want to know some of the things I found, and some of the people who helped me along the way, from Negro Leaguers to Major Leaguers, SABR folks to other baseball researchers, friends/family of Satchel, and…. ?

Or maybe you’d rather offer up your own takes on Leroy “Satchel” Paige and let my book speak for me.

Once it comes out I will write occasionally about things I am finding as I speak across the country, and things I might have put in the book had I known them earlier. I would love to hear from you on places I should be going and talks I should be giving that my publisher and I didn’t think of. I have endless energy to talk about Satchel, because I remain fascinated by him and the lens he offers into the Negro Leagues, the Jim Crow era, and America itself.

I recently started researching a new book for Random House — a bio of Superman. More about that later.

Bye for now.

Larry