After 6 years, the book is done. My latest quarterly newsletter. mailchi.mp/62dbd053dc91... @jmjournalist.bsky.social @metrotimes.com @bestbookstore.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social #ronleflore @powells.bsky.social #detroittigers @biographersintl.bsky.social @sportssocietyvu.bsky.social

A new biography of former Detroit Tiger Ron LeFlore, who in the 1970s famously went from prison to the big leagues, hits bookshelves this week - Detroit Metro Times After his notorious adolescence on the east side of Detroit in the 1960s, Ron LeFlore made national news in the ’70s as his hometown team’s unlikeliest of center fielders. And after a brief, but stori...

Excerpt from new book featured in @metrotimes.com. It was 50 years ago that #RonLeFlore started his 1976 season w/a 30 game hitting streak! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @nottigers.bsky.social @detroitbookfest.bsky.social

Great conversation about #RonLeflore with Andrew Maraniss. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLfR... @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @sportssocietyvu.bsky.social @biographersintl.bsky.social

Ron LeFlore gets his flowers Former Detroit Tigers All-Star centerfielder inducted into "the people's hall of fame."

Former #Detroit Tiger Ron LeFlore inducted into the people’s hall of fame.
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Sports books coming in 2026 So many great sports books to look forward to next year

"Baseball's Outcast" made the list! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #RonLeFlore

"Sports books coming in 2026": open.substack.com/pub/allsport...

Baseball's Outcast From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore's journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary. When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played hi…

Hailed as a "must-read," if you are interested in reviewing "Baseball's Outcast: The Story of #RonLeFlore," copies are available on @netgalley.bsky.social. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, www.bloomsbury.com/us/baseballs-outcast-9781538194959/

After 5 years of ONLY talking by phone with #RonLeFlore, the subject of my upcoming biography, I finally met Mr. “One in a Million” in person.

Ron was inducted this past weekend in the #BaseballReliquary Shrine of the Eternals in Whittier.

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