About Kostya Kennedy:
Kostya Kennedy is an award-winning American sportswriter. He is the author of 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports (2011)--named “the best baseball book to appear in many a season,” by Roger Kahn. And Pete Rose: An American Dilemma (2014), described this way by the novelist Richard Ford: “Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature.” For both books, Kennedy earned the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. Each was a New York Times Bestseller.