Dave Bidini is the author of nine books. His play, "The Five Hole Stories," was performed by One Yellow Rabbit and toured Canada in winter, 2009, and his two hockumentaries, "The Hockey Nomad" and "The Hockey Nomad Goes to Russia" were Gemini nominated-films (the former won for Best Documentary). He is the recipient of numerous National Magazine Awards as well as a weekly columnist in The National Post, and, in 1994, his former band, Rheostatics, won a Genie Award for "Claire" (from the film "Whale Music") and two of their albums were included in the Top 20 Canadian Albums of All-Time. His first hockey book, Tropic of Hockey, was named one of the Top 100 Canadian Books of All-Time by McClelland and Stewart, and his baseball odyssey, Baseballissimo, is currently being made into a feature film. He is a board member of Street Soccer Canada, and has attended two Homeless World Cups, travelling with Team Canada to Melbourne and Milan. He lives in Toronto with his wife, guitarist Janet Morassutti, and his two children.