Tyler Kepner started covering baseball as a teenager, interviewing players for a homemade magazine that was featured in The New York Times in 1989. He attended Vanderbilt University on the Grantland Rice/Fred Russell sportswriting scholarship, then covered the Angels for the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He joined The New York Times in 2000 and covered the Mets for two seasons, then covered the Yankees from 2002 to 2009. Since 2010 he has been the Times’ national baseball writer. He lives with his wife and four children in Wilton, Connecticut.