Kevin Cowherd is a multi-award-winning sports columnist and features writer who spent 32 years with the Baltimore Sun. Cowherd is also the author of four nonfiction books, including Far Down in the Hole: The Meteoric Rise, Tragic Fall, and Final Redemption of America's Most Promising Cop, which was co-written with Cal Ripken Jr. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Hothead, The Closer, and four additional baseball novels for young readers.