Michael D Batten JrAuthors Michael D. Batten Jr. and Ralph J. Richards Jr. used many items from their extensive collections of photographs and postcards for this pictorial history. For more than twenty-five years, Batten has been an avid Pitman historian and a collecto of local photographs and postcards. He is also past chairman of the Pitman Historic Commission and the Pitman Memorabilia Committee and is a member of the Gloucester County Historical Society. Richards is the unofficial Alcyon Speedway historian for the borough and is a dedicated local historian. He is currently a member of the Gloucester County Historical Society and has been collecting Pitman memorabilia for more than twenty years. Read More Read Less