James A. Riley
/in /by adminJames A. Riley (1939-2026) was an expert on the history of baseball’s Negro Leagues and a former SABR Board President. His landmark reference volume, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues, has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive works chronicling the segregated era of Black baseball. The book won a Macmillan-SABR Research Award, an honor Riley had previously received in 1990 for his work (with the late John Holway and Dick Clark) compiling Negro Leagues statistics for the eighth edition of Macmillan’s The Baseball Encyclopedia. Riley, who joined SABR in 1979 and remained an active member for the next four decades, served on SABR’s Board of Directors from 1996 to 2001, including one term as Board President from 1999 to 2001. He was the Director of Research at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City from 1996 to 2001. Click here to learn more about his life.
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