JONAH KERI is a writer for Grantland.com and a contributor to ESPN's Baseball Tonight. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First and the co-author of Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong. He has previously contributed to ESPN.com, SI.com, Baseball Prospectus, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and wrote the flagship stock market column for Investor's Business Daily.
"A special book that gives an underappreciated time and place in
baseball its due."
--Tim Raines
"In Up, Up & Away, Jonah Keri has produced a book that is one part
history, one part local legend, one part eulogy, and one part
letter to a lost love. The Montreal Expos deserved a book, and they
deserved this book."
--Bruce Arthur, national sports columnist, National Post
"Long gone but it seems like only yesterday. A certain charm
attaches to bygone ballparks and ball clubs: Ebbets Field, the St.
Louis Browns, the Seattle Pilots--supply your own favorite ghost.
But for me, the franchise with the most romance about it is the
Montreal Expos. Jonah Keri pays tribute, tells tales, spills beans,
and wakes the echoes in this glorious grand chelem of a book."
--John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball
A special book that gives an underappreciated time and place in
baseball its due.
Tim Raines
In Up, Up & Away, Jonah Keri has produced a book that is one part
history, one part local legend, one part eulogy, and one part
letter to a lost love. The Montreal Expos deserved a book, and they
deserved this book.
Bruce Arthur, national sports columnist, National Post
Long gone but it seems like only yesterday. A certain charm
attaches to bygone ballparks and ball clubs: Ebbets Field, the St.
Louis Browns, the Seattle Pilots supply your own favorite ghost.
But for me, the franchise with the most romance about it is the
Montreal Expos. Jonah Keri pays tribute, tells tales, spills beans,
and wakes the echoes in this glorious grand chelem of a book.
John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball"
"A special book that gives an underappreciated time and place in
baseball its due."
--Tim Raines
"In "Up, Up & Away," Jonah Keri has produced a book that is one
part history, one part local legend, one part eulogy, and one part
letter to a lost love. The Montreal Expos deserved a book, and they
deserved this book."
--Bruce Arthur, national sports columnist, "National Post
"
"Long gone but it seems like only yesterday. A certain charm
attaches to bygone ballparks and ball clubs: Ebbets Field, the St.
Louis Browns, the Seattle Pilots--supply your own favorite ghost.
But for me, the franchise with the most romance about it is the
Montreal Expos. Jonah Keri pays tribute, tells tales, spills beans,
and wakes the echoes in this glorious "grand chelem" of a
book."
--John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball
"Praise for The Extra 2%:
""The rise of the Rays over the last half-decade has been so
improbable it seems as if it was done by magic. It wasn't. It took
hard work, know-how, luck, and--as the title of this book
suggests--those little moves on the margins that make all the
difference. The Extra 2% is far from a financial research paper,
though--it is a fun, lively, and very smart read that might just
make you into a Rays fan." Will Leitch, author of "Are We
Winning"?
"Jonah Keri has given us a fascinating look at how the Tampa Bay
(Devil) Rays became winners. "The Extra 2%" is a captivating book
if you love baseball, but it's an even more captivating book if you
love success." Joe Posnanski, " Sports Illustrated"
Praise for "The Extra 2%"
"The rise of the Rays over the last half-decade has been so
improbable it seems as if it was done by magic. It wasn't. It took
hard work, know-how, luck, and--as the title of this book
suggests--those little moves on the margins that make all the
difference. "The Extra 2%" is far from a financial research paper,
though--it is a fun, lively, and very smart read that might just
make you into a Rays fan."
--Will Leitch, author of" Are We Winning?
"
"Jonah Keri has given us a fascinating look at how the Tampa Bay
(Devil) Rays became winners. "The Extra 2%" is a captivating book
if you love baseball, but it's an even more captivating book if you
love success."
--Joe Posnanski, "Sports Illustrated"
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