The Voice of Baseball Fans

When Emma Span—lifelong Yankees fan, former used-book salesperson, and Yale graduate—left her job writing copy for a website of straight-to-video films to become the sports reporter for the Village Voice, she crossed over from the world of the mere fan to that of professional sportswriter. Somewhere along the way, she successfully pitched a book for which she would follow New York's two Major League Baseball teams for a season hopefully destined to end with another Subway Series.