Cowherd, Kevin: - Kevin Cowherd is the New York Times best-selling author of Hothead and five other baseball novels for young readers written with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. Cowherd is also the author of six works of non-fiction. His book, When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope was praised in the Times' 2019 Summer Reading Issue as one of the five best new volumes on sports.Cowherd was an award-winning sports columnist and features writer for the Baltimore Sun for 32 years. He has also written for Men's Health, Parenting and Baseball Digest magazines