 He covered baseball exclusively from 1991 through 2006, writing not only for "Baseball America" but "ESPN The Magazine", "Newsweek", "Inside Sports" and other national publications.As a contributing freelancer to the "Times", he co-authored the Sunday column "Keeping Score" with 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.