Tom Dunkel
I'm a long-time freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, Wall Street Journal and other publications; also a former staff feature writer at The Baltimore Sun.
My first book, Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball's Color Line, was released in hardcover by Grove/Atlantic in April 2013. Booklist named it one of the year's Top Ten sport books.
Works

Color Blind; The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball's Color Line
COLOR BLIND is the true story of an integrated semipro baseball team that played in North Dakota during the Great Depression and whose marquee player was Satchel Paige, star pitcher and folk hero of the Negro Leagues.