Early Career
Schwarz spent five months at The National Sports Daily before being hired by Baseball America in 1991, where he served as the senior writer until he joined the Times in March 2007. He covered baseball exclusively from 1991 through 2006, writing not only for Baseball America but ESPN The Magazine, Newsweek and many other national publications. As a contributing freelancer to the Times, he helped begin the Sunday biweekly column "Keeping Score" – along with current Times business columnist David Leonhardt – where they applied statistical analysis to ongoing sports news. He also was the very popular host of ESPN's Baseball Today, the No. 1 rated individual-sport podcast on iTunes in 2006.
In 2004, Schwarz published his first book, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics. The book covers the history of statistical analysis in baseball, including the stories of Henry Chadwick, George Lindsey, Earnshaw Cook and Bill James, as well as the development of The Baseball Encyclopedia in the 1960s. Drawing widespread acclaim, the book was named by ESPN the "baseball book of the year" in 2004. His second book, Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories, was published in April 2007.
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