Throwing Strikes

R.A. Dickey is a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2012, while playing for the New York Mets, he became the first knuckleball pitcher to with the Cy Young Award. When not on the road with the team, he lives in Tennessee with his wife and four children. R.A. is also the author of the bestselling memoir Wherever I Wind Up and its adaptation for young readers, Throwing Strikes.

Sue Corbett is the daughter of Irish immigrants and grew up in a Long Island neighborhood very similar to the one depicted in 12 Again. Ms. Corbett has worked as a journalist for fifteen years in Missouri, South Carolina, Florida and, now, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and their three young children. As anyone who knows her will tell you, she really is half-Looney. However, she has only been twelve once. (So far.)

WAYNE COFFEY is one of the country’s most acclaimed sports journalists. A former writer for the New York Daily News, he cowrote R. A. Dickey’s bestselling Wherever I Wind Up and Carli Lloyd’s bestselling When Nobody Was Watching, and is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Boys of Winter.