S. L. Price, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated since 1994, has been called a Master of the New Journalism by the New York Times. An award-winning former columnist and feature writer at the Miami Herald and the Sacramento Bee, he is also the author of Far Afield, which Esquire named one of the five best books of 2007, and Heart of the Game, which was named the #1 baseball book of 2009.