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This is the online home of John Eisenberg, the Baltimore-based author and sportswriter. You have come to the right place to find out about John’s books, buy them, track his latest columns and opinions, check out his blog, and get in touch with him.

Since the summer of 2010, John has written about the Baltimore Ravens for csnbaltimore.com, a Comcast SportsNet web site devoted to Baltimore sports. As the site's Ravens Insider, John writes news, features, columns, and analysis, posting several times a day. He also writes a weekly column for baltimoreravens.com, the team's official site. You can check out what he has to say on Twitter, where he posts regularly.

Writing about the Ravens on a daily basis has not slowed his book career. In the fall of 2012, he will publish his latest volume of sports non-fiction, "Ten-Gallon War: The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans and the Feud for Dallas' Football Future." Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it is the tale of the rollicking three-year football war between franchises owned Clint Murchison, Jr., and Lamar Hunt.

John’s most recent book before this one was “That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory.” It depicts the remarkable turnaround the legendary coach engineered in 1959, at the start of his tenure with the Green Bay Packers – a chapter of the Lombardi story that had been lost in history’s mists. Set when pro football was just coming of age, the book was called “incisive” and “fantastic” by reviewers and featured on ESPN and NPR.

No matter if he is writing about a famous football coach, a heartbroken horse racing jockey, or a pitcher who wins 20 games, John is known for unearthing original stories and bringing them to life with his clear-eyed analysis and lively narrative style. His previous book topics include the history of the Baltimore Orioles, his experience as a young fan of the Dallas Cowboys in the 1960s, the tragic breakdown of the horse Barbaro, and an outrageous North-South horse race that captivated the nation in 1823.

A native Texan, John graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and began his writing career at the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald in 1979. He came to Baltimore around the time when the Colts left and the Orioles last won the World Series – yes, awhile ago. For most of the past quarter-century he was a Baltimore Sun columnist, hopping the globe to cover such major events as the Super Bowl, World Series, Kentucky Derby, Final Four, Masters, Olympics, Wimbledon and soccer’s World Cup.

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