Who is The Man With a Hat?

For more than a decade, Michael Randazzo (@manwithahat3) has scoured far and wide for offbeat stories that will surprise and delight readers. From his earliest publications on The Local, a blogsite maintained and edited by The New York Times, to his focused coverage of water polo in America, Randazzo’s writings on have appeared in The New York Times, Skip Shot, the magazine of USA Water Polo, TotalWaterpolo, Water Polo Planet, the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s website, the Brooklyn Heights Blog and other sites. He resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his wife and two children.

COLLABORATORS:

William “Chip” Brenner; copy editor, fact-checker and voice of polo sanity; lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

James Chang; site design, web architecture and the stylish logo. Lives in White Plains, N.Y.

Alfonso Fernandez; historian; former Puerto Rican national team player, currently the coach for Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan.

Luis Enrique Olaya Ravenna; translations; founder of Campeón, an online publication with nine digital editions and eight thousand followers.

Edwin Purcell; historian; former Puerto Rican national team player who competed in the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games. Member of Blue Thunder Masters Water Polo Club.

Genevieve Randazzo; copy editor; about to enter her freshman year at Williams College next September.