Glenn Stout has been the series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception and has written three illustrated biographies with Richard A. Johnson: Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life, and Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines. He is a columnist for Boston Baseball, and his work has appeared in many regional and national magazines and newspapers.

Richard A. Johnson is the curator of the Sports Museum of New England, the author of A Century of Boston Sports: Photographs and Memories, the coauthor of Young at Heart: The Story of Johnny Kelley, and a freelance writer whose work is also published frequently in regional and national magazines and newspapers.