Kevin Cowherd is the New York Times best-selling author of “Hothead” and five other novels for young readers written with Cal Ripken Jr. He is an award-winning sports columnist and features writer who worked for The Baltimore Sun for 32 years. His latest work of non-fiction, “When the Crowd Didn’t Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave
A Broken City Hope,” was included in the New York Times 2019 Summer Reading Issue.