I'm the author of three sports books, the most recent being Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters (Ivan R. Dee, publisher). Charging the Net draws on personal interviews and extensive archival research to produce the first in-depth look at blacks in tennis, from the black-led American Tennis Association in the early 1900s to the historic tournament wins by Gibson in the 1950s and Ashe in the 1960s and 1970s to the Hall of Fame careers of Evonne Goolagong and Yannick Noah to the emergence of sisters Venus and Serena Williams as Grand Slam champions and global superstars. My other books are Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey (Insomniac Press) and Call the Yankees My Daddy (The Lyons Press)."