Derrick Goold is an award-winning reporter and baseball writer who has covered the Cardinals for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 2004. A graduate of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, he has been honored for feature writing and investigative reporting while covering baseball, hockey and major college athletics. Goold is a contributor to Baseball America and has written for numerous national magazines and several collections. Goold, who grew up in Colorado, previously worked at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and The Rocky Mountain News. He writes one of the first and most widely read newspaper-based baseball blogs, Bird Land, and co-hosts a radio show. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and son.