Adam Henig
Adam Henig is the author of Watergate’s Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2021). He is also the author of Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey (2014), Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training (2016), and the soon-to-be released Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore (Rowman & Littlefield, 2026).
Adam’s writings have appeared in Time, Detroit Metro Times, Tampa Bay Times, Washington Independent Review of Books, History News Network, San Francisco Book Review, and the website BlackPast.
For more information, visit www.adamhenig.com.
Articles by
Ralph Melvin Wimbish (1922-1967)
During the 1961 Major League Baseball spring training season, Ralph M. Wimbish, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based African American physician, forced city leaders, hotel owners,...
Frank Wills (1948-2000)
On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, an African American night watchman, detected an early morning break-in at the Democratic National...
Ronald LeFlore (1948- )
On August 1, 1974, twenty-six-year-old Ron LeFlore made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut for the Detroit Tigers. Thirteen months...
