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American writer (–)

Robert W. Peterson (December 19, – February 11, )^[1] was an American newspaper writer who later became a freelance author of magazine articles and books, especially on the topics of sports and Scouting.

Biography

Peterson was born in in Warren, Pennsylvania. He played baseball while attending Upsala College, and later was a writer and editor with the New York World-Telegram newspaper, which folded in

Peterson's chronicle of Negro league baseball entitled Only the Ball Was White was hailed by The New York Times as having "recaptured a lost era in baseball history and a rich facet of black life in America".^[2] The baseball commissioner at the time, Bowie Kuhn, later credited Peterson's book with having "focused greater attention on the accomplishments of Negro League players", leading to their admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame.^[2]

Peterson's book The Boy Scouts: An American Adventur