Phil S. Dixon
Phil S. Dixon enters his fifth decade as a tireless researcher, author, presenter, and interviewer of sports-related topics. He continues his legacy as one of America’s foremost experts on baseball and other history-related topics. He is an active member of SABR (The Society of American Baseball Researchers). Dixon is a Humanities Kansas presenter and a past Missouri Humanities speaker who also serves on the Board of Governors for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, an organization he helped co-found in 1990. As a coach, he led youth baseball teams for over thirty years.
Dixon knows baseball inside and out. He presents regularly to academic audiences, libraries, historical societies, and community organizations, where his services remain in high demand.
Various luminaries have reviewed and praised his prior works, from Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent to Stephen Jay Gould, the famous American Paleontologist. Dixon is a proud recipient of the prestigious Casey Award winner for the “Best Baseball Book of the Year, 1992,” and a SABR Macmillan award winner for his excellence in baseball research. His recent book on John “Buck” O’Neil captured the Jackson County Historical Society’s “Best Local History” award. Phil is a lifelong resident of metropolitan Kansas City, where he resides with his wife Kerry and family.