GLENN STOUT is a freelance writer, author, and editorial consultant and has served as Series Editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception. He is the author ofThe Young Woman and the Sea andFenway 1912,The Selling of the Babe andhas collaborated with Richard JohnsononRed Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Cubs and The Dodgers. Stout has lived in Boston orNew England for more than30 years, first writing about the Patriots in 1988. Currently he lives in Vermont.