S. L. PRICE, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated for 26 years, is the author of five books, including Playing Through the Whistle, a finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Pitching Around Fidel, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Price has also written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Time, and Oxford American. He lives in Washington, D.C .,with his family.