Cecil Harris
333 Bronx River Road, #216
Yonkers, NY 10704
USA
Website: http://www.CecilHarrisBooks.com, http://www.CecilHarrisBooks.blogspot.com
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Professional Experience
Author of three books, including a New York Times' Editors' Choice selection. Have been published in the NY Times, NY Post, USA Today, Newsday, Sporting News, Hockey News and online. Sports history, sports business and sociology are my favorite topics.
Proficient in InDesign, Quark and Excel.
Have appeared as a sports authority on radio and TV, including CBS-TV, ESPN Radio, NPR, Westwood One, Black Entertainment Television, TV One and MSG.
Audio, video and writing samples available at www.CecilHarrisBooks.com.
Author of Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters; Call the Yankees My Daddy: Reflections on Baseball, Race, and Family; and Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey.
Former adjunct professor of sports marketing and management at Concordia College. At Urban Box Office Network, managed Web sites for tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams and former track star Marion Jones.
Expertise
Book Author
7 Years
Reporter
17 Years
Writer
20 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
17 Years
Books & Literature
7 Years
Sports & Recreation
20 Years
Industries
Academia Teaching
2 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
17 Years
Online/new media
9 Years