John Erardi played baseball for the Syracuse Moose All-Stars, Christian Brothers Academy, and later at Annapolis and Murray State University. The Enquirer reporter and columnist is a three-time Ohio Sports Writer of the Year and has won the Associated Press (AP) award for best sports feature paper story in the country, as well as the state AP award for best feature in an Ohio newspaper.

James Lilliefors is an award-winning journalist and novelist whose work has appeared in the Miami Herald, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, and various other publications. His books include America's Boardwalks, Highway 50, and Bananaville. Lilliefors grew up in the Washington, DC, area and currently lives in Naples, Florida.

In the Crosley era, Greg Rhodes played shortstop for the Crosley Management Indians of Richmond, Indiana. He served as the first director of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened at Great American Ball Park in 2004. He is currently the Cincinnati Reds team historian and has resided in Cincinnati since 1985.

Mark Schmetzer has lived his entire life in Greater Cincinnati and spent most of that time rooting for and writing about the Cincinnati Reds. In 2010, he co-authored The Comeback Kids with Joe Jacobs. He started covering the Reds in 1984, writing for RedsVue, a paper that later became Reds Report. He lives in Forest Park, Ohio, with his wife.