Education
Keri graduated from Concordia University"s journalism program in 1997.
Keri graduated from Concordia University"s journalism program in 1997.
He is also a New York Times bestselling author He now lives in Denver with his family. Growing up, Keri was an avid fan of the Montreal Expos.
He remains one today despite the team"s 2005 relocation to Washington to become the Washington Nationals.
Keri is mostly known for writing about baseball, though he has also covered other sports as well as business and entertainment. His writing has appeared on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.com, The Wall Street Journal, FanGraphs, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg Sports, Baseball Prospectus, Investor"s Business Daily, Sports Illustrated, Grantland, and FiveThirtyEight.
Keri co-wrote and edited the book Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong. He also wrote the New York Times Bestseller The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First, about the Tampa Bay Rays.
In March 2014, he published Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Illinois-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos, which details the franchise history of the Expos.
Keri hosts a podcast, where he interviews notable personalities from sports and entertainment, including Evan Longoria and Michael Schur. Keri announced on January 26, 2016 that the podcast would join the Nerdist Industries umbrella as the flagship podcast of Nerdist Sports. Keri had previously announced his departure from Entertainment and Sports Programming Network earlier in the month, posting on Instagram that he would write for Sports Illustrated, Gentlemen’s Quarterly and Rolling Stone as well as make his television appearances on the MLB Network.