David Fleming

Meadowlark correspondent and author of Who's Your Founding Father?, Breaker Boys, Noah's Rainbow, and, coming in October 2025 from St. Martin's Press: A BIG MESS IN TEXAS - The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and The Craziest Untold Story in NFL History.

David Fleming's Titles

Who's Your Founding Father?

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The Breaker Boys: The NFL's Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship

Now in paperback!

Noah's Rainbow

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“Who can resist cracking this new wild and wonderful investigation? If you haven’t read Fleming before, you’re in for a treat.”

-Garden & Gun

October 2025!

“Dave Fleming has a unique gift for turning up the weirdest, funniest, and most compelling stories in sports―and his account of the Dallas Texans, a team that most NFL fans probably don’t know existed, is no different. This book is a must read for Cowboys fans, or anyone who loves a good underdog story.”

― ESPN’s Mina Kimes

Praise

"In this hugely entertaining page-turner of a book, David Fleming proves beyond reasonable doubt that Thomas Jefferson plagiarized the Declaration of Independence, and then sought to cover it up. This is historical detective work at its best."

"A fine writer, and the history of the Pottsville Maroons is illuminating."

President George W. Bush

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"Noah's Rainbow is one of those rare books that alters the way you see the world. As a father, it moved me deeply. I honestly cannot remember whether I cried or laughed more."

Andrew Roberts

NYT bestselling author of Napoleon, Churchill, and The Last King of America

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Joe Posnanski

NYT bestselling author Why We Love Baseball, Paterno, & The Secret of Golf

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"David Fleming has written a book that is probably going to upend everything you know about America’s founding and that is not an overstatement."

Sharon McMahon

America’s Government Teacher and host of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting podcast

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About Flem.

David Fleming is the author of four books and a Meadowlark Media correspondent. His next book, A Big Mess In Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History will be published in October 2025 by St. Martin's Press. During the last three decades at Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and Meadowlark, Fleming has been one of the industry’s most prolific, versatile, and imaginative longform storytellers, traveling the globe while penning more than 35 cover stories and numerous groundbreaking, award-winning pieces on everything from the Super Bowl and Steph Curry to the Musical Chairs World Championship, hockey dentists and sports fans on Death Row. He has reported in China, Switzerland, England and Mexico and has covered 25 Super Bowls, the Olympics and every major sporting event, including Lightsaber Dueling and Big Foot Calling. Along with the definitive profiles of Bill Belichick, Andy Reid, Michael Vick and many others, Fleming has produced countless innovative pieces on the cross-section of sports, history, science, sociology and culture, including his award-winning piece on Life and Death at the Chicago Marathon and Reche Caldwell's journey from the Patriots to prison, which was the 5th-most read sports story on the Internet in 2014. Fleming’s unique work has earned numerous national awards, a hand-written note from the White House and in 2024 was recognized (for the 5th time) in The Year's Best Sports Writing anthology. He has appeared on SportsCenter, OTL, E:60, ESPNDaily (podcast) and is a frequent guest and contributor to Pablo Torre Finds Out. He has also appeared on HBO, CNN, FOX, Good Morning America, NPR, The Dan Le Batard Show and Howard Stern. Fleming is the author of Who's Your Founding Father? One Man's Epic Quest to Discover the First, True Declaration of Independence (Hachette, May 2023); Breaker Boys: The NFL’s Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship (Random House, 2007); and Noah's Rainbow: A Father’s Emotional Journey from the Death of his Son to the Birth of his Daughter (Baywood Publishing, 2006). A native of Detroit, Fleming attended Miami University where he was captain of the varsity D1 wrestling team. He and his wife, Kim, live in North Carolina with their daughters.