Via Starwars.com:

Sports and Star Wars have both loomed large in my life, bringing me enormous joy, occasional misery, and uncounted hours of entertainment.

I’ve been a huge baseball fan since I was seven years old — I co-write Faith and Fear in Flushing (http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/), a blog about the hapless New York Mets, and can say with confidence that I’m one of the 500 or so biggest Mets fans in the world.

And I’ve been a huge Star Wars fan since I was eight years old — I’ve written nearly 30 Star Wars books and short stories, and can say with confidence that I’m one of the two dozen or so biggest Star Wars experts in the world.

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