About the Author

Peter Golenbock is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and is widely acknowledged as the best oral historian in the literature of sport. Some of his best-known books include The Bronx Zoo, which he wrote in 1979 with New York Yankees pitcher Sparky Lyle; BUMS: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1984); Personal Fouls (1988), a look at corruption in college basketball; American Zoom (1993), a history of NASCAR; and Wild, High and Tight (1994), his lurid biography of Yankees manager Billy Martin. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.