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By the age of ten Eric Zweig was already a budding sports fanatic who was filling his school news books with game reports instead of current events. He has been writing professionally about sports and sports history since graduating from Trent University in 1985 with a degree in Political Studies. His articles have been printed in numerous Canadian publications including the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, the Ottawa Citizen, the Calgary Herald and The Beaver. He has also been a writer/producer with CBC Radio Sports and TSN SportsRadio.

Eric’s first book, Hockey Night in the Dominion of Canada, (Lester Publishing, 1992) was an historical novel set in the early days of professional hockey. He has been working with Dan Diamond and Associates since 1997 and was a managing editor of Total Hockey (1998, 2000), Maple Leaf Gardens: Memories and Dreams (1999), 99: My Life in Pictures (1999) and The Toronto Blue Jays Official 25th Anniversary Commemorative Book (2001), among many other titles. Eric is also the author or co-author of several non-fiction sports books for children (Hockey Trivia for Kids, Scholastic, 2006, A Century of Hockey Heroes, Goals and Saves, Somerville House, 1999, and Long Shot and Star Power, James Lorimer & Co.) and a hockey trivia book (Ice Q and As, Andrews McMeel, 2001), plus two other historical hockey titles (Ultimate Prize: the Stanley Cup and Glory Days: Hockey in the 1950s and ’60s Andrews McMeel, 2004). Eric has also compiled a series of sports quote books for Firefly Publishing. He appeared as a “Hockey Philosopher” in the CBC series Hockey: A People’s History in 2006.

Eric is a member of the Society for International Hockey Research and the Society for American Baseball Research. He is married and lives in Owen Sound, Ontario, with his wife Barbara, who is also a writer and editor. A former member of the Toronto Blue Jays grounds crew, he still has a champagne bottle from the club’s first American League East Division title celebration in 1985.

By the age of ten Eric Zweig was already a budding sports fanatic who was filling his school news books with game reports instead of current events. He has been writing professionally about sports and sports history since graduating from Trent University in 1985 with a degree in Political Studies. His articles have been printed in numerous Canadian publications including the Toronto Star, the Glob... More