Rob Rains is the editor of STLSportsPage.com and former National League beat writer for USA Today's Baseball Weekly and for three years covered the St. Louis Cardinals for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat until its collapse in the 1980s.

Rains has been writing books, magazine articles, and doing radio[2] for the past 10 years.

Rains has written or co-written more than 30 books, most on baseball, including autobiographies or biographies of Mark McGwire, Ozzie Smith,[4] Jack Buck, Red Schoendienst, and Dave Phillips.

[5] which he wrote with former St. Louis Cardinal Andy Van Slyke.

The Curse is a novel that describes a tragic plane crash that kills almost the entire Chicago Cubs roster, and the new players that soldier on to take the Cubs to their first World Series in decades.