Career
He wrote for the Saint Louis Post Dispatch and as on-air talent on Columbia Broadcasting System Sports 920 in Saint Louis, weekday afternoons. He worked as an on-air talent at 101 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Radio in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was featured on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s Jim Rome is Burning and Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s The Sports Reporters.
Burwell also was a co-writer and host of a documentary on the baseball"s Negro League called The Color of Change.
Prior to 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, African-Americans were stonewalled from baseball and forced to form their own league. Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and "Cool Papa" Bell "barnstormed" their places into American history.
Burwell recounted in The Color of Change the trials and tribulations of the baseball league built by racism and its ultimate demise. The documentary featured interviews with Buck O"Neil, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith for the Saint Louis Post Dispatch.
Burwell died at the age of 59 on December 4, 2014 from cancer.