Chris Jensen is a nationally recognized baseball writer and novelist whose publishing debut, Baseball State by State, received praise across the baseball community. His second book, Baseball’s Two-Way Greats: Pitching/Batting Stars from Ruth and Rogan to Ohtani, continues his passion to shine the light on Negro League players. Influenced from his hometown roots close to Cooperstown, New York, his baseball research explores how Black baseball intersects with Major League Baseball.

Baseball’s Two-Way Greats

Pitching/Batting Stars from Ruth and Rogan to Ohtani (2025)

Baseball State by State

(2012)

About

Growing up in close proximity to Cooperstown, N.Y., helped turn Chris into a baseball fanatic. He majored in English and journalism at SUNY Potsdam and then got a master’s in journalism from Ball State University, where he wrote an award-winning humor column for the Ball State Daily News.

A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA), Chris contributes baseball articles to IBWAA’s “Here’s the Pitch” Newsletter, the “Start Spreading the News” blog (for Yankee fans), and Seamheads.com. He has also had baseball articles published in Elysian Fields Quarterly, the Yankees 2011 Annual Yearbook and Brew Crew Ball.com.

Write something good, and feel good about writing it.
— Jacqueline Woodson

Chris is a husband to a fellow Yankees fan, Tiffany. They have four kids who love the Yankees to varying degrees: Abby, Brandon, Ava and Sam. Brandon’s high school baseball career greatly surpassed that of his father, who was cut from his high school team as a senior.