In this extensive book, Eisenberg (Cottonbowl Days) traces the history of the modern Orioles from 1954 to the present. He captures the team's exploits at their baseball "boot camp" in Thomasville, Ga., at stadiums all over the country...
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John Eisenberg, Author . Warner $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-53070-5
With an introduction that compares 1950s racehorse Native Dancer with Elvis and Milton Berle, Eisenberg puts a great deal of pressure on his volume to convince readers these comparisons are viable. Thankfully, in most cases, the book and author live
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John Eisenberg, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (258p) ISBN 978-0-618-55612-0
Early in Eisenberg's detailed, entertaining chronicle of the May 1823 race between two Thoroughbreds—one from the South, one from the North—he recounts a scene that captures his tale's central tension. In the grandstand of the...
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That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
John Eisenberg, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-618-90499-0
When Vince Lombardi took over as head coach for the moribund Green Bay Packers in 1959, both parties had much to prove, as Eisenberg, a former Baltimore Sun
sports columnist, makes clear in this bio. Lombardi, a longtime assistant in college and...
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John Eisenberg, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-83120-6
A look at a boy, a team and a city, this portrait by Baltimore Sun sports columnist Eisenberg will strike a chord in those who grew up as sports-obsessed hero-worshipers. Raised in Dallas, Eisenberg dates his awareness of sports to 1960, when he was
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John Eisenberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-547-43550-3
The merger of the upstart American Football League with the NFL was the result of quintessential American business wheeling and dealing that played out in back rooms. Eisenberg (That First Season) offers that story through the lens of the battle...
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John Eisenberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-544-10767-0
Eisenberg (The First Season) adeptly profiles the two Baseball Hall of Fame players whose consistency became the stuff of legend: Lou Gehrig, who played 2130 consecutive games, and Cal Ripken Jr., who broke Gehrig’s record and eventually played...
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John Eisenberg. Basic, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-465-04870-0
Sportswriter Eisenberg’s enlightening history chronicles the first three decades of the National Football League. As he describes it, today’s multibillion-dollar National Football League bears little resemblance to the underdog association launched...
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John Eisenberg. Basic, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5416-0040-9
This insightful chronicle by former Baltimore Sun columnist Eisenberg (The Longest Shot) examines the discrimination faced by Black quarterbacks in professional football, beginning in 1923 when Fritz Pollard of the Hammond Pros became the first...
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