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- Cecil Harris works as a projects editor and writer at Major League Baseball in New York City. He is the author of Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis (Ivan R. Dee), Call the Yankees My Daddy (The Lyons Press) and Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey (Insomniac Press). Prior to writing books, he covered Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees, college football, tennis, boxing, soccer and track and field for Gannett Newspapers, earning statewide and corporate awards. He covered the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes for The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina and the New York Rangers and New York Islanders for Newsday. He served as a contributing writer to The Hockey News and The Sporting News. He covered the National Basketball Association’s Indiana Pacers for The Indianapolis Star. He also covered St. John’s University and Big East Conference basketball for the New York Post. While at Urban Box Office Network, he served as the managing editor of thewilliamssisters.com and marionjones.com, the official Web sites of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams and track and field star Marion Jones.
Cecil has covered such major events as the World Series, the American League Division Series, the American League Championship Series, the Stanley Cup Finals, the NBA Finals, the NCAA men’s basketball championships, the NCAA Division I football national championship game, the U.S. Open tennis championships, All Star Games in baseball and hockey, the New York City Marathon, the Millrose Games and the 1996 Olympic Games.
Cecil graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in media studies from Fordham University. He has taught sports marketing and management at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York. He lives in Yonkers, New York.
- Do you have any published books:
- I am the author of Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2007); Call the Yankees My Daddy: Reflections on Baseball, Race, and Family (The Lyons Press, Connecticut, 2005); and Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey (Insomniac Press, Toronto, 2004).
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