Adam Henig is the author of Watergate’s Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2021) and the upcoming Baseball’s Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore (Rowman and Littlefield, 2026).
The Detroit east side native hadn’t even played an organized game of baseball until he was 23, when he was surrounded by barbed wire, five-story-high concrete walls, and a watchtower with an armed guard at the ready
