Tim Patten (born 1952) is a former roller derby athlete[1] now a self-published author having seven books under his name.
[citation needed] In 1988 he became owner of the San Francisco Bay Bombers team.
He later formed his own league, the San Francisco-based American Roller Derby League (ARDL), [citation needed] which has gone through several incarnations but generally focuses on promoting a team named the Bay City Bombers.
[3] For four years, while seeking treatment for an HIV-related neurological infection, the infection was healed through progressive medications, Patten wrote the novel Roller Babes: the Story of the Roller Derby Queen, which he self-published under his sister's name D. M. Bordner in 2005.
The novel was described in an independent, Michigan-based publication[citation needed] as "a fictional yet historically accurate and personalized account of the national women's roller derby leagues in the 1950s".