Mychael Urban

MYCHAEL URBAN was a San Francisco Chronicle bestselling sportswriter and the author of Aces: The Last Season on the Mound with the Oakland A’s Big Three—Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder, and Barry Zito.

Urban graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in journalism and spent more than two decades covering baseball, including eight years at various newspapers before joining MLB.com in 2001 as a traveling beat writer for the Oakland A’s. His work also appeared at the San Francisco Examiner, NBC Sports Bay Area, KNBR, 95.7 The Game, The Athletic, and ESPN, and he contributed to five Olympic Games for NBC.

Urban was born in San Francisco on August 23, 1968, and died on August 23, 2023, his 55th birthday.

Mychael Urban’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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