CECILIA TAN was born in New York City and raised a Yankee fan by her dad, who got hooked on the team after emigrating from the Philippines. She has written features for "Yankees Magazine" (the official scorecard magazine of the New York Yankees), "Mudville," "Baseball Ink," "Baseball Today," and "Picto." Tan was formerly a columnist for Yankees Xtreme, the team's official Web site prior to the centralization of MLB.com, and a staff writer for "Yankeebaseball.net." She produces her own online baseball magazine, Why I Like Baseball, and is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research. Tan is also a noted fiction writer and editor.