Part one of a two-part discussion with Robert K. Fitts, who is an award-winning author and researcher with a focus on the history of baseball in Japan and Japanese baseball cards.

Maybelle Blair is a women’s baseball pioneer who is a former player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League with the Peoria Redwings.

Adam Darowski is the Executive Director of Design at Sports Reference, and a Negro Leagues and Latin American baseball historian, focused on the intersection of statistical analysis and historical preservation.

Bob Kendrick is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.

Gary Cieradkowski is a renowned baseball historian, researcher, author, and artist

Phil Rosenzweig is an award-winning author and one of the world’s foremost experts on the T202 Hassan Triplefolder baseball card set.

Ed Wheatley is the vice president of the St. Louis chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research, an award-winning author of multiple baseball books, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and a St. Louis Cardinals historian.

Larry Lester and Stephanie Liscio are two of the world’s leading authorities on the Negro Leagues, each of whom are published authors, public speakers, researchers, and historians.