About Jonah Keri
Jonah Keri is a sports and stock market writer / journalist. His take on the issues is influenced by objective analysis and biased Canadianism.
His new book, “The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First” (ESPN Books/Ballantine), was published on March 8, 2011. It covers the Tampa Bay Rays, their journey from cellar dwellers to pennant winners and the methods they used to get there. You can order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Powells, or your local independent bookstore.
He has agreed to terms on a deal to write another book, The Definitive History of the Montreal Expos, for Random House Canada. The book is tentatively slated to be published in Spring 2014 — the 10-year anniversary of the Expos’ move out of Montreal, and the 20-year anniversary of the 1994 strike.
Jonah’s sports writing has appeared at ESPN.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Sports, FanGraphs, SI.com, Salon, Slate, Playboy, Penthouse, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, and many other publications.
He is also the editor and co-author of Baseball Between the Numbers, and has contributed to many other books.
Since 1999, Jonah has covered the stock market for Investor’s Business Daily and IBD’s Web site, investors.com.
The Jonah Keri Podcast, which debuted in 2010, has quickly become one of the Web’s most popular sports podcasts. Guests have included Tim Raines, Bert Blyleven, Rob Neyer, Dan Shulman, and many other luminaries. You can download episodes at JonahKeri.com, and on iTunes.
Greatest hits:
Does Baseball Need Umpires? parts 1 and 2 at Wall Street Journal
A Not-So-Brief History of Pitching Injuries at JonahKeri.com
Albert Pujols, Underappreciated Superstar at ESPN.com
18 Greatest Jewish Baseball Players at Salon.com
An historical perspective on Roger Clemens at New York Magazine
Farewell to the Expos
Archives of Jonah’s writing:
ESPN.com: baseball, basketball, hockey, ultramarathons, cricket
FanGraphs: lots of baseball
Baseball Prospectus: lots more baseball
New York Sun: mostly college basketball
YES Network: baseball including LABR experts fantasy league
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