Jonathan Eig interview-80th anniversary of Muhammad Ali's birth

<p>Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the birth of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.</p> <p>Tonight we will celebrate the life of Muhammad Ali and I cannot think of a better guest to discuss the greatest Heavyweight champion of all time than esteemed journalist and sports author Jonathan Eig. Jon hales from Chicago and, starting in the mid-1980s, he has worked as a journalist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Dallas Morning News, Chicago Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.</p> <p>In 2005 he published his first book The Luckiest Man: the life and death of Lou Gehrig which earned critical acclaim and won the Casey Award for the best baseball book released in 2005.</p> <p>Since then he has released four more critically acclaimed books dealing with Jackie Robinson, Al Capone, the birth of the Pill, and his most recent book a biography of Muhammad Ali.</p>