Author Talk: Baseball Writer Tyler Kepner

Just in time for the first pitch!

Get ready for the 2023 baseball season! Come meet New York Times national baseball writer Tyler Kepner at the Ridgefield Library on Tuesday, March 28th at 7:00 pm. He will discuss his latest book: The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series.

Tyler Kepner has been The Times’s national baseball writer since 2010. He joined The Times in 2000 and covered the Mets for two seasons then covered the Yankees from 2002 to 2009.

Mr. 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. 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.

He lives with his wife and four children in Wilton, Connecticut, and is the 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. 11, 2022) for Doubleday.

Books on the Common will have books for purchase and signing.

Please register to attend.