[1] He is the author, along with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., of The New York Times best-seller Hothead and five other baseball novels for young readers.
Cowherd's latest work of non-fiction is When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope.
Cowherd has also written four other books of non-fiction: Way Down in the Hole: The Meteoric Rise, Tragic Fall and Ultimate Redemption of America's Top Cop; The Art of Crisis Leadership with co-author Rob Weinhold; The Opening Act: Comedy, Life and the Desperate Pursuit of Happiness, a memoir of Baltimore comedian Larry Noto; and a biography, Hale Storm: The Incredible Saga of Baltimore's Ed Hale, Including a Secret Life with the CIA.
Cowherd has also written for Men's Health, Parenting and Baseball Digest magazines and is the author of a collection of Baltimore Sun columns, Last Call at the 7-Eleven, published in 1995 by Bancroft Press.
In the morning edition of The San Jose Mercury News that day, Cowherd's column had "predicted" the earthquake, as he wrote that "these are two teams are from California and God only knows if they'll even get all the games in.