Ira Berkow

Ira Berkow

About the Author

Ira Berkow is a columnist and sports reporter who spent more than twenty-five years writing for the New York Times, earning a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting that was awarded to the staff for the Times’ series How Race Is Lived in America. He has also written for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and The Chicago Tribune Magazine, and is the author of How to Talk Jewish (with Jackie Mason), Counterpunch: Ali, Tyson, the Brown Bomber, and Other Stories of the Boxing Ring, and It Happens Every Spring: DiMaggio, Mays, the Splendid Splinter, and a Lifetime at the Ballpark.