He is the author of The Baseball Codes[1]: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (2010), Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic[2]: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's (2017), They Bled Blue[3][4][5]: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers (2019), and is the co-author of Kenny Loggins' memoir, Still Alright[6][7][8]: A Memoir (2022).
He began his professional career as the sports editor at the Crescent City Triplicate, a newspaper based in a small logging town on the north coast of California.
Turbow eventually wrote for various publications like The New York Times,[9][10][11] The Wall Street Journal, and Sports Illustrated.
The book received positive reviews[14] and established Turbow as a respected voice in baseball literature.
In 2017, Turbow released Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic, a book that chronicled the rise and fall of the Oakland Athletics under the ownership of Charles O. Finley during the 1970s.