2. Author introduction

Robert W. Peterson was born in $1925$ in Warren, Pennsylvania. He was an American newspaper writer who later became a freelance author of magazine articles and books, especially on sports and scouting.

Robert W. Peterson was an editor and writer of the old New York World-Telegram newspaper. He also wrote numerous articles for scouting magazine in the $1970$s–$1990$s.

Some of his famous works are,

Only the Ball Was White
Rhodesian independence
Agnew: the coining of a household word
Space: from Gemini to the moon & beyond
Crime & the American response
South Africa & apartheid

Robert W. Peterson died of lung cancer on February $11$, $2006$, in Salisbury, Pennsylvania.