Tim Brown
Author/Sports Columnist
Tim Brown is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning national sports columnist covering Major League Baseball most recently at Yahoo! Sports for nearly 15 years. He formerly served as a national baseball columnist at the Los Angeles Times and freelanced for the Wall Street Journal, and also had stints as a reporter earlier in his career at The Star-Ledger, Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Los Angeles Daily News.
Tim is a renowned, award-winning sportswriter with a national reputation for writing human interest stories, ranging from in-depth features on Mike Trout to Derek Jeter to Kim Ng throughout their careers, to covering broader cultural issues in sports from controversy around steroid usage in the game, as well as the under representation of Black baseball players. He also has written personal essays, spotlighted local efforts to elevate underprivileged youth baseball players, and championed women rising through the ranks of the League.
Earlier in his career, Tim covered the Los Angeles Lakers for the Los Angeles Times for five years, writing hundreds of stories and front-page features about the storied championship team in the era of Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.
As a New York Times bestselling author, he's written two non-fiction books. The first, in 2013, was a biography about Jim Abbott, a candid and reflective life story, about his journey as a one-handed pitcher. The second book, released in 2018, chronicled the rise, fall and comeback of pitcher-turned-outfielder Rick Ankiel.
He is currently under contract for two upcoming books with the Hachette Book Group (HBG) imprint Twelve.
As a revered sports expert and an animated storyteller, Tim is a popular and frequent contributor to national and local sports radio shows, podcasts, and he also served as the host of a podcast series at Yahoo! Sports, and was a television broadcaster for the Major League Baseball network.
He studied journalism at the University of Southern California and Cal State Northridge. He and his wife live in Raleigh, North Carolina with their two Labrador retrievers.
