Alan Schwarz is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics and Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories.
He was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for his reporting on the effect of concussions in sports, which was credited with improving safety policies both among athletes and the military.
Before joining the Times in 2007, Schwarz was known primarily as the Senior Writer of Baseball America magazine, a columnist for ESPN.com and a frequent contributor to dozens of national publications.
Read other articles by Alan Schwarz.
""The Numbers Game" is a riveting history of the search for new
baseball knowledge. The amazing thing about that search, as Schwarz
ably demonstrates, is that it was conducted not by baseball
insiders, but by the ordinary baseball fan."
- Michael Lewis, author of the best-selling "Moneyball"
"Alan Schwarz has written one of the most original and engrossing
histories of baseball you could ever read."
- From the Foreword by Peter Gammons
"The language of baseball is statistics, and Alan Schwarz gives us
an unprecedented look at one of the world's great romance
languages. Schwarz deftly illuminates the history and relevance of
baseball statistics and is at the top of his game introducing the
people behind the numbers. The cast is an eclectic mix of baseball
linguists, including an alcoholic pack rat, a military strategist
and one of Albert Einstein's faculty colleagues. You don't need a
slide rule or pocket protector to appreciate the tales Schwarz has
unearthed -- gems such as Babe Ruth's long lost 715th home run
abound -- but you will become more fluent in baseball."
- Tom Verducci, "Sports Illustrated"
""The Numbers Game is a riveting history of the search for new
baseball knowledge. The amazing thing about that search, as Schwarz
ably demonstrates, is that it was conducted not by baseball
insiders, but by the ordinary baseball fan."
- Michael Lewis, author of the best-selling "Moneyball
"Alan Schwarz has written one of the most original and engrossing
histories of baseball you could ever read."
- From the Foreword by Peter Gammons
"The language of baseball is statistics, and Alan Schwarz gives us
an unprecedented look at one of the world's great romance
languages. Schwarz deftly illuminates the history and relevance of
baseball statistics and is at the top of his game introducing the
people behind the numbers. The cast is an eclectic mix of baseball
linguists, including an alcoholic pack rat, a military strategist
and one of Albert Einstein's faculty colleagues. You don't need a
slide rule or pocket protector to appreciate the tales Schwarz has
unearthed -- gems such as Babe Ruth's long lost 715th home run
abound -- but you will become more fluent in baseball."
- Tom Verducci, "Sports Illustrated
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