Francis and Eddie by Brad Herzog

Francis and Eddie by Brad Herzog

A century ago, in 1913, the world's finest golfers gathered at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, to compete in golf's national championship, the U.S. Open. Joining them was a little-known amateur, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet, who lived across the street from the course and taught himself to play by sneaking onto the fairways with the only golf club he owned. His caddie? Ten-year-old Eddie Lowery, who stood only four feet tall. Together, against their idols and in front of a crowd that grew from a handful of spectators to a horde of thousands, they attempted to pull off the impossible. Along the way, they forged a lifelong friendship. In FRANCIS AND EDIE award-winning author Brad Herzog and award-winning illustrator Zachary Pullen celebrate golf's most inspiring underdog story. What Seabiscuit is to the sport of kings Francis and Eddie are to the gentleman's game.

Brad Herzog (bradherzog.com) has written over thirty nonfiction books for adults and children of all ages (on topics ranging from soccer to sportsmanship to civil rights). Brad has seen every episode of the From Earth to the Moon miniseries multiple times and traveled to Riverside, Iowa, just to see Captain James T. Kirkpatrick's well-kept futuristic burial.