Jeff Pearlman

Jeff Pearlman (born 1972) is an American sports writer. He has written two books about baseball and was the author of the infamous John Rocker interview in Sports Illustrated. In October 2011 he released his fifth book, a biography of Walter Payton titled, "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton." It spent four weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Pearlman is the author of The Bad Guys Won, a biography of the 1986 New York Mets subtitled, "A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best." In 2004, the book spent eight weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Pearlman followed that up with his 2006 publication of Love Me, Hate Me, an unauthorized biography of Barry Bonds for which the author said he interviewed 524 subjects. Pearlman said that because Love Me, Hate Me was released three weeks after Game of Shadows, it quickly faded. His third book, Boys Will Be Boys, on the 1990s Dallas Cowboys dynasty, spent 10 weeks on the New York Times best-seller's list. His fourth book, a biography of Roger Clemens titled, "The Rocket That Fell to Earth," was released by HarperCollins on March 24, 2009. The book is a detailed account of Clemens' life on and off the baseball field. His fifth book, "Sweetness," is a biography of Walter Payton, the late Chicago Bears running back. In March 2014, Pearlman released "Showtime," a biography of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. It became his fourth New York Times best seller. His seventh book, a biography of Brett Favre titled "Gunslinger," was released in October 2016 and spent considerable time on the New York Times best-seller's list.

Pearlman was born and raised in Mahopac, New York. He got his start in journalism in 1989, when he interned at a weekly newspaper in Cross River, entitled "The Patent Trader". After graduating from the University of Delaware, he was hired as a food and fashion writer by The Tennessean in Nashville. In 1996, Pearlman was hired by Sports Illustrated, where he spent nearly seven years as a baseball writer.

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