![]() ![]() A gripping tour through the most elemental component of baseball. 11, 2022) for Doubleday.īooks on the Common will have books for purchase and signing. by Tyler Kepner RELEASE DATE: April 2, 2019. He lives with his wife and four children in Wilton, Conn., and is author of the best-selling “K: A History of Baseball In Ten Pitches” (2019) and “The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series” (Oct. A native of Philadelphia, he started covering baseball as a teenager, interviewing hundreds of players for a homemade magazine that was featured in The Times in 1989. ![]() Kepner attended Vanderbilt University on the Grantland Rice/Fred Russell sportswriting scholarship, then covered the Angels for the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise and the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before joining The Times. In his book, K: the Story of Baseball in Ten Pitches, he not only presents the history of each pitch like the fastball, slider, curve - even offerings like the screwball, spitter and knuckler. He joined The Times in 2000 and covered the Mets for two seasons, then covered the Yankees from 2002 to 2009. Thanks to hundreds of hours of interviews with dozens of players, The New York Times’ national baseball writer, Tyler Kepner, found that out. Tyler Kepner has been The Times’s national baseball writer since 2010. ![]()
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