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Shakeia Taylor

Shakeia Taylor is an avid baseball historian and freelance columnist. Her main interests are the Negro Leagues and women in baseball, while also being a highly active advocate for diversity in sports journalism.


As one of the best baseball writers today, her emotion-evoking prose writing has helped shine the light on race and culture in baseball. A 2021 winner of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Analytics Conference Research Award and Associated Press Sports Editors Award, her powerful writing has made appearances across many platforms and has been featured on SB Nation, FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, MLB dot com, and more.

Shakeia Taylor, a freelance columnist and baseball historian focusing on the Negro Leagues and women in baseball. An advocate for diversity in sports journalism, her award-winning prose highlights race and culture in baseball, featured on platforms like SB Nation and MLB.com

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