Christ Church Greenwich will host “Baseball, Faith, and the Chase for World Series Glory” with Tyler Kepner, New York Times National Baseball Writer, a Free Talk, Coffee, Book Signing & Conversation on Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm. The event will be held In-person in the Parish Hall, or livestream.
Tyler Kepner has been The New York 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.
Kepner attended Vanderbilt University on the Grantland Rice/Fred Russell sports writing 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.
“The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series” is his second book for Doubleday, after the best-selling “K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches” (2019).
Tyler’s book will be available for purchase at the event at Dogwood Books & Gifts, adjacent to the Parish Hall. Tyler will be signing books after his talk.
For more information and to register, visit https://christchurchgreenwich.org/friday-night-baseball/
