Baseball for people who want to know more.
Statistics are great. There are thousands of websites devoted to dissecting the WARs and BABIPs and wOBAs and launch angles of everyone old enough to carry a bat. But in the rush to quantify everything and speed up our assessment of ballplayers, we’ve lost some important context: the game is played by human beings who have good days and bad days, just like everyone else. They get nervous, sad, stressed, excited, angry, euphoric, upset, pre-occupied by family issues, pets, death, taxes, heartbreak, and joy in their personal lives just like everyone else. The Long Game will highlight what these players go through on a daily basis to take you inside what’s really happening behind the scenes.
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Molly Knight is an author and journalist. She has a degree in human biology from Stanford University. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, ESPN, Men's Health, Marie Claire, The Athletic, SELF, and Variety, among other places. She covered the Los Angeles Dodgers for many years.
Her first book, The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse was an instant New York Times' Bestseller. It was also a finalist for the PEN America award in sportswriting.
In addition to her work in sports, she has also interviewed hundreds of celebrities for pop culture stories and magazine cover profiles. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog, George.
