Jonathan Eig

Broschiertes Buch

Luckiest Man

The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

Beschreibung

Drawing on hundreds of new interviews and previously unpublished letters, this authoritative, comprehensive biography of New York Yankee Lou Gehrig--the "Iron Horse"--reveals one of the greatest baseball players of all time as readers have never seen him before. 40 photos.

Autor

Jonathan Eig is a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is the New York Times bestselling author of five books, including Ali: A Life , Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. Ali was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and the James Tait Black Biography of the Year Award, and won the British Sports Book Awards Sports Book of the Year Award and the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780743268936
• ISBN-10: 0743268938
• Artikelnr.: 20996190