About Cecilia Tan Cecilia Tan has been writing professionally since she was a teenager in the mid-1980s, when she sold articles, interviews, and photographs to teen magazines like Teen Machine and wrote a monthly column for Superteen. She established herself as a science fiction/fantasy writer and editor in the 1990s, but found her passion for baseball kept bringing her back to that subject. Cecilia began writing about baseball in her mid-thirties, when the McGwire/Sosa home run race and the Joe Torre Yankees rekindled her childhood interest in the sport. She began with a weekly column for YankeesXtreme.com and eventually wrote features for Yankees Magazine. In 2005 she became the Yankees beat writer for Gotham Baseball Magazine, and as a senior writer provides a weekly column of Yankees observations for www.GothamBaseball.com called "Good Eye." Also in 2005, her book on the history of the New York Yankees, The 50 Greatest Yankee Games was published by Wiley. The paperback followed in 2006, along with a followup book, The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games, co-authored with Bill Nowlin. In 2007, she edited the Bombers Broadside, an annual look at the New York Yankees, for Maple Street Press, and also wrote several articles in the publication, including the preview of the 2007 season and profiles of Andy Pettitte and Derek Jeter. She has several Red Sox-related editing projects under her belt as well, having co-edited with Bill The Fenway Project (Rounder Books, 2004) and '75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball. She contributed biographies of Elston Howard and Gary Bell to The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox (Rounder Books, 2006), and was also the book's copyeditor. She is a member of the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM), the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), and the National Writers Union (NWU). Forthcoming Projects: Bambino Road It's a novel that traces the history of the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry, as our band of baseball-loving characters attempts to overturn the Curse of the Bambino. Charlie Scarinci, Jr. is a Sox fan for life. In his mid-thirties, he lives with his girlfriend Ruth, a tarot card reader--his wife having left him years ago to move to New York with their then-five-year-old son. Charlie Jr. is now twelve and a Yankees fan, and coming to Boston for a visit. It's an awkward situation for everyone, until they meet a mysterious ballplayer who believes his career is was hexed by his one appearance at Fenway. Can these four misfits undo almost a century of bad luck, freak occurrences, and misery? You know how it all turned out in 2004--now read the "real" story of the magical conspiracy against the Red Sox... Some Baseball-Related Publications: In Baseball's Greatest Rivalry, ed. by Harvey Frommer and Frederick Frommer, new edition forthcoming "The Duel," article on May 28, 2000 grudge match between Pedro/Clemens Mudville Magazine, Feburary 2003 "Singin' the Blues," article on MLB public relations, umpiring and the QuesTec system Yankees Magazine, the official scorecard magazine sold in Yankee Stadium--various articles: Interview feature on 1962 W.S. MVP pitcher Ralph Terry Feature article on Luis Sojo career retrospective Special piece on "star" spring training instructors Baseball Ink magazine "Baseball Time" September 2000, Vol. 2, No. 2 Positions Held Beat writer/columnist, Gotham Baseball Magazine--July 2005 to present. Writes weekly web column and writes feature pieces for print magazine. Staff writer, Yankeebaseball.net--September 2001 to May 2003 Wrote game recaps, post-season previews, spring training reports, and other pieces for front page of this online team site. (Site now defunct.) Columnist, Yankees Xtreme--June 2000 through October 2000 Provided a weekly column to the official pay-subscription site of the New York Yankees (prior to MLB.com closing the individual team sites.) Writer/Editor/Producer, Why I Like Baseball--February 2000 to present Writes, edits, designs, and programs all content on this baseball -themed web site, topics ranging from the major leagues to sandlot games. Copyright © 2007 Cecilia Tan

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