About the Author
Poet and scholar Dorian Hairston is a former University of Kentucky baseball player and a member of the Affrilachian Poets. His debut poetry collection, Pretend the Ball is Named Jim Crow explores the Black American experience through the lens of basebal legend Josh Gibson’s life and seventeen-year baseball career while addressing social change, culture, family, race, death, and oppression-while honoring and giving voice to Gibson and a voiceless generation of African Americans.
