Jonathan Eig, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig - Jonathan Eig is a senior special writer for TheWall Street Journal, has written for Esquire, The New Republic, and other major magazines, and has appeared on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and CNBC. Luckiest Man is a revelatory new biography of Lou Gehrig - the New York Yankee's Iron Horse - that features never-before-published correspondence to and from Gehrig, along with hundreds of new interviews and original research.

Leigh Montville, Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero - The journalist chosen to write Ted Williams's cover story obituary for Sports Illustrated, Leigh Montville was a sports columnist for The Boston Globe for twenty-one years, author of At the Alter of Speed and Manute, and co-author, with Jim Calhoun, of Dare to Dream. In his bestselling biography of Ted Williams, Montville offers an unparalleled exploration of the life of an American icon, conjuring the grace of William's swing and the power of his notoriously prickly public persona.

Art Shamsky, The Magnificent Seasons - In 1969 three underdog New York sports teams won world championships: The Mets, The Jets, and The Knicks. It was an unprecedented feat in the history of sports, and it helped bring the nation's largest city - and much of the country - euphoria to balance the lingering political despair of 1969. Co-author of The Magnificent Seasons, Art Shamsky was a major part of the "Miracle Mets" that won the 1969 World Series.

Neil Lanctot, Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution - In Negro League Baseball, Neil Lanctot, a history professor at the University of Delaware, traces the rise of black baseball from the Great Migration of 1916-1919 through its five-decade run to its final innings in the late 1950s. In remarkable detail, Lanctot takes us beyond the ball fields where the baseball greats like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson played in forced segregation and into the commercial and social realities of baseball in black communities.