Shelly Riley

Shelly grew up in Northern Michigan listening to the sounds of Ernie Harwell as he updated Tigers radio fans about the 6-4-3 double play that her boys Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker just turned. Born a Tigers fan, she quickly dropped baseball in her semi-rebellious youth to follow other, more socially acceptable mischief. After graduating from Michigan State University in 2003 with a BA in English, She moved down to the Greater Detroit area and quickly rediscovered her childhood love of baseball.
A member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, she frequently feels the need to spread her opinions around to as many people as she can find to listen (as her friends are sick of hearing her talk baseball). When she is not spending her paycheck at the CoPa in downtown Detroit, she is at home watching the game with her very vocal cat, Pumpkin, who is accepting of her owners obsession and often opts to join her in baseball viewing. Shelly also has a strange obsession with ballpark hotdogs and her opinions can easily be bought with a bag of peanuts and a cold beer (or two).
Her work can also be seen at www.seamheads.com.