Nonfiction
Chris Lamb
Chris Lamb is a professor of Journalism at Indiana University-Indianapolis, where he has taught courses like Fake News; Myth, Baseball, and the Meaning of Life; Sports, Race, and the Media; and Feature Writing for 12 years. He is an author, historian, lecturer, satirist, and columnist. He is the author of 12 books, including Stolen Dreams: The Cannon Street Little League All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War. Lamb’s columns and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Republic, and Salon. Lamb is married to his wife Lesly, and they have one son, David.
2024 Nonfiction Shortlist: Stolen Dreams. The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball's Civil War
When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the all-Black Cannon Street YMCA AlI-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. The Civil Rights Movement, as it became known, brought change in ways that were unprecedented, unpredictable, and often violent. It would not be clear to those boys for years, perhaps decades, that they were part of the struggle for civil rights in the United States.
