Gare Joyce, described by Sports Illustrated as “one of this continent’s master craftsmen of sporting prose,” is a writer for ESPN The Magazine , a sports correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and a contributor to several other magazines. He has won four National Magazine Awards and been a finalist 19 times. He has written three books, Sidney Crosby: Taking the Game by Storm, The Only Ticket Off the Island: Baseball in the Dominican Republic, and When the Lights Went Out: How One Brawl Ended Hockey’s Cold War and Changed the Game.