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Jonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal and the former executive editor of Chicago magazine. He is the author of two highly acclaimed bestsellers, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. Luckiest Man won the Casey Award for best baseball book of 2005, and Opening Day was selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated. Mr. Eig lives in Chicago, half a mile from the site of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, with his family.

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Get Capone
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Get Capone The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster By: Jonathan Eig
This edition: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publication date: April 27, 2010
Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the...
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Opening Day
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Opening Day The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season By: Jonathan Eig
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2008
April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the...
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Luckiest Man
Luckiest Man The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig By: Jonathan Eig
This edition: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publication date: April 3, 2006
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 his name. But as...
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