Education
Upsala College.
Upsala College.
His 1970 chronicle of Negro league baseball entitled Only the Ball Was White was hailed by The New York Times as having "recaptured a lost era in baseball history and a rich facet of black life in America". He was raised in Warren, Pennsylvania, Peterson played baseball while attending Upsala College. He was a writer and editor with the old New York World-Telegram newspaper, which folded in 1966.
At the time of his death, he was on a committee selecting Negro league players for the Hall of Fame.
Peterson"s book, The Boy Scouts: An American Adventure, was written in 1984 on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America (Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture). In it, he discusses the history of Scouting"s various programs, such as the founding of the Order of the Arrow by East. Urner Goodman, and the influence Ernest Thompson Seton"s successful use of American Indian culture in his Woodcraft Indians program had on Scouting"s early development, particularly the Order of the Arrow.
Peterson also wrote numerous articles for Scouting magazine in the 1970s–1990s, such as a tribute to William Hillcourt in 1985, acclaiming the influential Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture leader as "the foremost influence on development of the Boy Scouting program". He subsequently wrote another article for Scouter magazine about Hillcourt in 2001.
Among the articles Peterson penned for the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture"s Scouting magazine was an account of Scouting activities in the Japanese-American internment camps during World World War World War II
