Fever Pitch is laugh out loud funny. I found myself laughing aloud in my living room, on the train, waiting for public transportation. It is a story not only about soccer (football, sorry), but about fandom, passion, and the relationships that go with it.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction book written by H. G. Bissinger. The book follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship.
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton (Harper Review 1966)(796.33). This is the book that invented “participatory journalism.” It is a classic about professional football in which a first-string writer tries out for last-team quarterback.
The Boys of Summer is a 1972 non-fiction baseball ... a Sports Illustrated panel placed The Boys of Summer second on a list of "The Top 100 Sports Books of All ...
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation.
Beyond a Boundary (1963) is a memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography".
Tiger Woods, by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, will be published March 27 by Simon & Schuster. Guys, congratulations on the book. Plenty of new revelations, and incredible additional detail and insight into Tiger’s professional and personal life.
Traveling with the miracle team, from the isolated mountain region where Castel di Sangro is located to gritty towns as well as grand cities, McGinniss introduces us to an Italy that no tourist guidebook has ever described, and comes away with a "sad, funny, desolating, and inspiring story--everything, in fact, a story should be" (Los Angeles Times).
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is a book by Michael Lewis released on September 2, 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company. It focuses on American football.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend is a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand, published in 2001. The book is a biography of the Thoroughbred racehorse Seabiscuit. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was adapted as a feature film in 2003.
This volume is a biography of American former professional boxer Muhammad Ali (b. 1942). Ail is generally considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history. Through accounts of noteworthy admirers and close-associates, this work chronicles Ali's life and times.
Professional golfer, Kendra Vallone runs through the essentials of Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf. This video includes "The Grip" and …
David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of four critically acclaimed and bestselling books, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, They Marched Into Sunlight War and Peace, Vietnam and America October 1967, and Clemente The Passion and Grace of Baseballs Last Hero.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 disaster there, in which eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a "rogue storm".
And there is a venal, racist sports agent who wants to call all of the shots for the athletes he represents. What is strange about "Heaven Is a Playground" is how this dynamite material is defused - how the movie meanders and loses its way, drags to a halt when it should be most exciting, and goes through strange shifts in tone and style.
If Semi Tough is a look into the lasciviousness of football through rose-colored lenses, then North Dallas Forty is a sobering glance at exactly how messed up the world of professional sports can actually be.
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"The Glory Of Their Times" remains a timeless work, and can be enjoyed by more than just hard-core baseball fans. Basically the story of the early days of Major League Baseball, told by the surviving oldsters who had played it, "The Glory Of Their Times" works so well because it isn't just another opinion piece by a professional writer.
Dare to Tri is the amazing story of TV presenter Louise Minchin's journey from the BBC Breakfast sofa to representing Great Britain at the World Triathlon Championships. This is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through-sport that will both entertain and inspire.
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters is a 1995 nonfiction book by San Francisco Chronicle sports writer Joan Ryan detailing the difficult training regimens endured by young women in competitive sports such as gymnastics and figure skating, published by Doubleday Books.
Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win is a beautiful book jam-packed with excellent mini-biographies of some of the most iconic and important female athletes of history. It’s an incredible new read from Rachel Ignotofsky, with each athlete getting wonderful illustrations. This book is excellent in every day.
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The book is the story of the Hellas Verona football (soccer) team as Parks follows them through an entire 30+ game season. You meet the players, coaches, owners, and fans, and get to know more than soccer; you learn about the place that the game holds in modern Italian society.
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Richard Ben Cramer's Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life is a bruising exposé of a strange man. DiMaggio was cold, domineering, suspicious, impatient, and greedy. Off the diamond he was deeply flawed, on it he was a god. DiMaggio was, in baseball parlance, a “five tool” player.
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The Natural by Bernard Malamud is not the typical sports hero novel. The protagonist, Roy Hobbs, a talented baseball player being scouted by the Chicago Cubs, hits rock bottom after being shot in the stomach, possibly ending his baseball career. Fifteen years later, Roy returns to the game and joins the fictional New York Knights.
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Charlotte Dujardin is an elite British dressage rider, winner of three Olympic gold medals and a silver (London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016), European Champion, and World Champion, and holds all three World Records in the sport of dressage.
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A Good Walk Spoiled is the bestselling nonfiction sports book of all time. This book by John Feinstein provided very good insight about life on the PGA Tour. He followed the lives of touring pros such as Brian Henninger, John Cook, and Paul Goydos.
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In the book "The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams" by Darcy Frey, the main characters in the book are African American High Schoolers, the setting takes place on Coney Island, Brooklyn that was once New York's playground and then turned into a ghetto.
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Written in 1936 as a valediction to writing about sports it is as up to date and relevant a book as I've read on sport this twelvemonth. I love the individual essays on sportsmen I have heard of as heroes but don't know enough about to place them within twelve years of their peak; in this section I gained new heroes for myself in Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney and, most remarkable of all; Bobby Jones.
The Breaks of The Game, the book that resulted, remains one of the best sports books I have ever read and a work that has easily stood the test of time.
Among the Thugs: The Experience, and the Seduction, of Crowd Violence is a 1990 work of journalism by American writer Bill Buford documenting football hooliganism in the United Kingdom.
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My Losing Season is the beautifully-told story of one boy's final college basketball season. More than that, it's about the triumph of the human spirit. Conroy may consider himself a second-rate athlete, but he's a first-rate man.
The Book of Sports, or Declaration of Sports, was issued by King James 1st in 1617. It listed sports and recreations permitted on Sundays and other ‘holy days’. By looking at this historical document the outline discusses the application of scripture to civil law and how it must be done craftily.
Writing about sports can mean anything from a juicy novel about love among athletes to an academic study of the game — whatever game is your favorite — to the obsessive superstar biography that raises up or knocks down a hero.
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