The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie, Triumph Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-6007-8104-9.Summers in the Bronx: Attila the Hun and Other Yankee Stories, Triumph Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-6007-8392-0.Summers at Shea: Tom Seaver Loses His Overcoat and Other Mets Stories, Triumph Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-6007-8775-1.Autumns in the Garden: The Coach of Camelot and Other Knicks Stories, Triumph Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-6007-8866-6.Counterpunch: Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring, Triumph Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-6007-8973-1.Giants Among Men: Y.A., L.T., the Big Tuna, and Other New York Giants Stories, Triumph Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-6293-7046-0.It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark, Triumph Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-6293-7318-8.He holds an honorary doctorate degree from Roosevelt University (Chicago), 2009.īerkow is the author of 26 books including the Edgar Allan Poe Award nominated non-fiction The Man Who Robbed The Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever. In 2006, he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, "For thoughtful commentary on the sports scene." The novelist Scott Turow wrote, "Ira Berkow is one of the great American writers, without limitation to the field of sports."
His work has been reprinted or cited over six decades in the annual anthologies Best Sports Stories and its successor Best American Sports Writing, and a column of his was included in Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999). He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his article "The Minority Quarterback" in The New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America.
įrom 1981 to 2007 he was a sports reporter and columnist for The New York Times and has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Art News, Seventeen, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, National Strategic Forum Review, Reader's Digest, and Sports Illustrated, among others. He was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, a syndicated features writer, sports and general columnist, and sports editor for the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Berkow earned his BA in English Literature at Miami University, and his MA from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
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