Jonathan Eig: 5 books
Opening Day
The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
This bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.
April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto...
Get Capone
The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wante
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted America’s most notorious criminal, Al Capone.
Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan...
by Jonathan Eig
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
**A Chicago Tribune "Best Books of 2014" • A Slate "Best Books 2014: Staff Picks" • A St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Books of 2014"
The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.**
We know it simply...
Luckiest Man
The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears...
Ali
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner of The Times Sports Biography of the Year
“As Muhammad Ali’s life was an epic of a life so Ali: A Life is an epic of a biography . . . pages in succession its narrative reads like a novel—a suspenseful novel with a...