STEVEN TRAVERS, a University of Southern California graduate and former professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Oakland A s, is the author of twenty books, including the bestselling "Barry Bonds: Baseball s Superman" (Sports Publishing, 2002), nominated for a Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of 2002; and "One Night, Two Teams: Alabama vs. USC and the Game that Changed a Nation" (Taylor Trade, 2007). A former prep sportswriter for the "Los Angeles Times", he lives in California and has one daughter, Elizabeth.