Gaylon H. White

Gaylon H. White is the author of six books, the latest, Coach of a Lifetime, to be released by Rowman and Littlefield in September 2023. The book is the inspirational true story of Lewis Cook Jr., a high school football coach in Louisiana who motivates and encourages ordinary kids from a handful of farming communities to do extraordinary things on the football field and in life.

White previously wrote The Bilko Athletic Club (2014); Singles and Smiles (2018); Left On Base in the Bush Leagues (2019); The Best Little Baseball Town in the World (2021); and teamed with Ransom Jackson on Handsome Ransom Jackson: Accidental Big Leaguer (2016). All five books were published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Called "one of the best sports books of 2014" by Bruce Miles of the Chicago Daily Herald, The Bilko Athletic Club is a blast from the past revolving around beer-loving, home run-hitting Steve Bilko and the 1956 Los Angeles Angels of the old Pacific Coast League.

Accidental Big Leaguer covers the career of Jackson, a two-time National League All-Star in the 1950s and the last Brooklyn Dodger to hit a home run. The book was a grand slam with Allen Berra of the Chicago Tribune, who wrote: "We can only hope that among today's players there's someone as sharp and funny as Handsome Ransom Jackson to remember them."

Singles and Smiles traces the life of Artie Wilson, the greatest shortstop nobody heard of, from Birmingham, Alabama, where he was born in 1920 to Portland, Oregon, where he lived 55 years until his death in 2010. The book received the Negro Leagues Research Committee's Robert Peterson Recognition Award named after the author of the trail-blazing book on black baseball, Only the Ball Was White.

"Meticulously researched and compellingly presented, Left on Base in the Bush Leagues is the best book on 1950s minor league baseball ever, a milestone worthy of sharing the same bookshelf with The Glory of Their Times," according to Jim McConnell, author of the critically acclaimed biography Bobo Newsom: Baseball's Traveling Man.

The Best Little Baseball Town in the World prompted Kevin Kernan of the website, Ballnine, to write: "The timing is perfect for this book considering what's happening currently with the minors. White can be the voice for baseball in small town America."

White lives in Kingsport, Tennessee.