I'm also the author of numerous books that might be of interest to Tripatini readers.

TRADING MANNY: HOW A FATHER & SON LEARNED TO LOVE BASEBALL AGAIN (DaCapo Press, 2012) is a funny memoir about teaching baseball to my son Joe while trying to answer his very-difficult seven-year old questions about why professional ballplayers needed to take steroids. It also contains the only published (and thus authentic) version of the story of how I once nearly killed Paul Simon's son with a softball while visiting Senator Al Franken (it's kind of a long story).

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: A NOVEL (Yam Hill Publishing; 2010) is my comic novel about coming to terms with grief and loss, while imagining how much fun it might be to lock oneself into the cabin of a cruise ship and gain 400 pounds. (Again, kind of a long story, but one I felt needed telling.)

TRY THIS FOR BETTER SEX, AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE HOW-TO GURU (Yam Hill Publishing, 2012) is a collection of my funny essays for Premiere Magazine in the 1990s, where I reviewed how-to videos as the "How-To Guru." 

I've written several other books, too -- guidebooks to Seattle & Portland, books on Hillary Clinton and the antebellum South for middle-school readers, and the autobiography of Charlie Sifford, the first African-American golfer.