Myles Traveled is a great story. It’s an inspirational story. It’s the American Dream.”

— JIM LACHEY OSU All-American

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Kansas City – Where It All Began!

Posted on September 21, 2014September 21, 2014 by Steve Davis

July 19, 2014, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Missouri: It all started in Kansas City. Thus, that seemed a fitting place to launch the book. On Saturday afternoon, Bill and Lorita set up in the Lobby of The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Don Motley, Bill’s baseball coach and first Executive Director of the Negro Leagues Museum, was there. Several of Bill‘s former players were there. Robert Wedgeworth, book contributor and former University Librarian for the University of Illinois was around. Jim Bufford, who plays a prominent role in the book, was in town. Many of those important to Bill saw it fit to show up! The book was not yet in full print, but the publisher managed to get Bill 50 advance copies. Those 50 copies sold out in one hour! Myles Traveled was launched!

Available now from

Barnhardt & Ashe Publishing, Inc.

(Click link above and scroll down to the “purchase now" button on the publishers website.)

About the Authors

Bill Myles has lived a fascinating life in athletics, from segregated Kansas City and Negro Leagues Baseball, to an up and coming high school coach, and then an insider in the country’s most powerful College Football programs. Bill coached under the giants at Nebraska and Ohio State—Bob Devaney, Tom Osborne, Woody Hayes, and Earle Bruce. With a career record of 170 wins, 67 losses, 7 ties, and 8 Big Eight/Big Ten Championships, Bill coached in 14 college bowl games including the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Fiesta and Gator Bowls. Bill then served 22 years as Associate AD at Ohio State, in the biggest college athletic department in the country.

Steve Davis is a lifelong Buckeye Fan and a 1973 graduate of The Ohio State University. His first Ohio Stadium experience was the 1969 OSU win over Purdue, which propelled the Buckeyes to a National Championship. Davis was too small (and too slow!) to play for the Buckeyes, instead graduating from the OSU College of Agriculture Honors Program.