Mark J. Schmetzer is the author of "Before the Machine: The Story of the 1961 Pennant-Winning Reds" (Clerisy Press, 2011) and co-author of "The Comeback Kids: Cincinnati Reds 2010 Championship Season. He was the editor of RedsVue, the official newspaper of the Reds, from 1983 through 1987, and has edited RedsVues replacement, Reds Report, since 1991. He also covers the Reds for the Associated Press. The 2010 season was the twenty-fifth out of the last twenty-seven in which he covered the Reds on a daily basis. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio."