James E. Overmyer
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James E. Overmyer

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Jim Overmyer is a veteran criminal courts journalist and legal administrator who has combined his courthouse experience with a longstanding passion for baseball history to author books in both genres. His latest, "The Electrocution of Baby Lawrence," revives a notorious murder case from the 1940s that gripped newspaper readers from coast to coast with its account of the death of a six-month-old highly disabled boy that could have been an accident, a murder, or...a "mercy killing." By day, Overmyer was a reporter for the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and later an administrator for the District Attorney's Office there, as well as the New York State Office of Court Administration in nearby Albany. His lifelong interest in baseball included the Negro Leagues, the Black major leagues that existed prior to major league integration in 1947. "Queen of the Negro Leagues" is the biography of Effa Manley, an owner of the Newark Eagles. She is one of 37 Black baseball figures, and the only woman from any baseball background, elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Overmyer's other Black baseball works include "Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays," the biography of another prominent Negro league owner, a basketball star in his youth, who is one of only two people elected to two American professional sports halls of fame, and "Black Ball and the Boardwalk", a history of the black Atlantic City Bacharach Giants team of the 1920s. Overmyer has contributed to several other publications, including "Shades of Glory", a history of black baseball in America. He is an editor of Black Ball, a scholarly journal of black baseball history.
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