Author Biography
Frederick C. Klein is a longtime writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal, where he originated the On Sports column. He is a freelance writer andthe author of many books, includingseveralother entriesin the For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Anderson is an illustrator whose work has appeared on the back cover of National Geographic, the New Yorker, and Time and inside the Atlantic Monthly,BusinessWeek,Harvard Business Review,Outside, and many other periodicals. He is the illustrator and designer ofTriumph Books' popular For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Chicago. Johnny Pesky has served the Red Sox in virtually every capacity as an All-Star player, a coach, a manager, a broadcaster, and a goodwill ambassador over parts of seven decades. A Boston legend, Pesky has worn the uniform longer than anyone else, and his namesake Pesky Pole marks the right field foul line at Fenway Park.
