Buster Posey is a former catcher who spent the entire tenure of his twelve-year career with the San Francisco Giants. He is a seven-time All-Star and a three-time World Series champion. Posey won the Golden Spikes Award in 2008 for being the best amateur baseball player in the United States while playing at Florida State University. He was named 2010 National league Rookie of the Year and in 2012 he won the National League Most Valuable Player Award, National League Comeback Player of the Year Award, National League Batting Title, and Hank Aaron Award. During his final 2021 season Posey helped lead his team to 107 wins and a National league West title, along with his second National League Comeback Player of the Year Award. Along with his wife, Kristen, he is a confounder of BP28, a charity that aims to change outcomes for children with pediatric cancer.

Brad Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He shot his first San Francisco Giants game in 1987 for the Contra Costa Times. Mangin worked for legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer as a staffer at The National Sports Daily, shot ten Sports Illustrated covers, and photographed twenty World Series. He donated his archive of over 120,000 baseball photographs to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Previously, Mangin and Brian Murphy coauthored Worth the Wait (2010); Never. Say. Die. (2012); and Championship Blood (2014). Mangin also published Instant Baseball: The Baseball Instagrams of Brad Mangin in 2013. He lives in Pleasanton, California, with his cat, Willie.

Brian Murphy is the cohost of the popular Murph & Mac morning show on KNBR 104.5/680, the flagship of the San Francisco Giants. Prior to joining KNBR in 2004, Murphy was a sportswriter for fifteen years for the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, and Los Angeles Times. He coauthored Worth the Wait; Never. Say. Die.; and Championship Blood with Brad Mangin. Murphy has also written The San Francisco Giants: 50 Years; San Francisco 49ers: From Kezar to Levi’s Stadium; and coauthored The Last Putt: Two Teams, One Dream, and a Freshman Named Tiger. The UCLA graduate lives in the North Bay with his wife, Candace, and two sons, Declan and Rory.