Ron Anderson grew up in the Boston area a devotee of their 1950s-era major league baseball teams, with allegiance initially rooted in the cross-town club, the National League’s Boston Braves, and then morphing permanently to the vicissitudes of a Red Sox team in 1953 upon the Braves departure from the city. A contributing Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) author for SABR’s Baseball Biography Project, including: ’75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball; The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: Pandemonium on the Field; When Boston Still Had the Babe: The 1918 World Series Champion Red Sox; Spahn, Sain and Teddy Ballgame: Boston’s almost Perfect Baseball Summer of 1948; Go-Go to Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox. And, his full-length baseball biography of former Red Sox All-Star first baseman George Scott – Long Taters: A Baseball Biography of George “Boomer” Scott, McFarland Publishing, released in 2012.

I WAS BORN POOR, I WAS BORN BLACK, and I WAS BORN IN MISSISSIPPI, is a companion book, a requisite part of George Scott’s memoir and his all-inclusive life story.

Ron has been a keynote speaker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York; as well as a featured presenter at numerous SABR conferences. Ron lives with his wife, Gail, in Concord, NH.