An award-winning columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Art Thiel is co-founder and columnist at Sportspress Northwest (sportspressnw.com), a regional news website. In 2003 he wrote the definitive book about the Seattle Mariners, Out of Left Field, which became a regional bestseller. A Northwest lifer, Art is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University as well as two dead papers and a live one (The Tacoma News Tribune), and his radio commentaries can be heard Friday and Saturday mornings and Friday afternoon on KPLU-FM 88.9.