Michael Betzold is an Emmy award-winning journalist who has written three non-fiction books: “Appointment with Doctor Death (Momentum, 1993), the definitive account of Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s euthanasia crusade; “Queen of Diamonds: The Tiger Stadium Story”, with Ethan Casey (Northmont Publishing, 1997), a history of Tiger Stadium; and “End of the Line: Autoworkers and the American Dream (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), an account of life on the assembly line. A former reporter for the Detroit Free Press, Betzold is a freelance writer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. CASEY AND THE BAT, his first novel, is his way of coping with the loss of Tiger Stadium.