Alan Schwarz is a prolific sports writer and author, currently on staff at The New York Times. He is best known for writing dozens of articles in the Times that have exposed the severity of sports-related concussions, particularly the connection between injury to NFL players and early-onset dementia. Alan has won several major journalism awards for this work, including the 2007 and 2009 Associated Press Sports Editors Award for Project Reporting, a 2009 George Polk Award, granted infrequently to a sports reporter and the 2010 Deadline Club Award for Sports Journalism, granted by the New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 and 2010. Prior to joining The New York Times, Alan was a Senior Writer at Baseball America for Sixteen Years; he also wrote for ESPN the Magazine & Newsweek during that time. Alan has published two baseball related books, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong fascination with Statistics & Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories.