As a sports reporter, Jim Naughton covered the Mets for the New York Daily News in 1986, the year the Mets won the World Series. The holder of a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in American history from Syracuse University, he has also covered sports for The New York Times and worked as a feature writer for The Post-Standard in Syracuse and The Washington Post. He is the author of three sports books for young adults: two novels and a biography of Michael Jordon. Naughton's most recent novel, Where the Frost Has Its Home, features a seventh-grade hockey player. In high school, Naughton helped found his school's cross-country team. But he says, when he was growing up, "my heart belonged to baseball. Unfortunately, I wasn't much good at it." As an adult living in Washington DC, he now walks and swims for exercise.