Dan Taylor is a sports historian, baseball broadcaster, and former award-winning television sportscaster. He is the author of seven books, his most recent being Out of the Rough: Ted Rhodes and His Fight Against Golf's Color Barrier. Previous works include Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington and Lights, Camera, Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball, which was a finalist for the Casey Award for baseball book of the year. Taylor is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and contributes to their Biography Project. He lives in California.