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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis 20 people voted »
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Ball Four
Ball Four
by Jim Bouton 9 people voted »
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand 7 people voted »
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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
by Michael Lewis 7 people voted »
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The Boys of Summer
The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn 6 people voted »
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life
Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, &...
by Tony Dungy 6 people voted »
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
by George F. Will 3 people voted »
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Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella 3 people voted »
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Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer
Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kr...
by Jerry Kramer 3 people voted »
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Season on the Brink
Season on the Brink
by John Feinstein 3 people voted »
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October 1964
October 1964
by David Halberstam 3 people voted »
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The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares that Go with It
The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the...
by Tom Callahan 3 people voted »
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The Fight
The Fight
by Norman Mailer 2 people voted »
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Cobb: A Biography
Cobb: A Biography
by Al Stump 2 people voted »
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To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Tho...
by Will Blythe 2 people voted »
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Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine
Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Le...
by Tom Jordan 2 people voted »
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The Education of a Coach
The Education of a Coach
by David Halberstam 2 people voted »
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Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby 2 people voted »
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Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarte...
by George Plimpton 2 people voted »
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The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game,...
by Buster Olney 2 people voted »
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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
by Bill James 2 people voted »
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Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
by Tommie Smith 2 people voted »
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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
by David Maraniss (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
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When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi
When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lom...
by David Maraniss (Goodreads author) 2 people voted »
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Semi-Tough: A Novel
Semi-Tough: A Novel
by Dan Jenkins 2 people voted »
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The Last Protest: Lee Evans in Mexico City
The Last Protest: Lee Evans in Mexico City
by Frank Murphy 2 people voted »
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The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul
The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson 2 people voted »
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Summer of '49
Summer of '49
by David Halberstam 2 people voted »
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Breaks of the Game
Breaks of the Game
by David Halberstam 2 people voted »
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Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major
Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major
by John Feinstein 2 people voted »
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Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL
Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's...
by John Feinstein 2 people voted »
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Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines
Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines,...
by Dick Schaap 2 people voted »
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35
Bo Knows Bo
Bo Knows Bo
by Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap 2 people voted »
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Not the Triumph But the Struggle: 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete
Not the Triumph But the Struggle: 1968 Olympics...
by Amy Bass 2 people voted »
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37
Tyson: Nurture of the Beast
Tyson: Nurture of the Beast
by Ellis Cashmore 1 person voted »
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IT NEVER RAINS IN TIGER STADIUM: FOOTBALL AND THE GAME OF LIFE
IT NEVER RAINS IN TIGER STADIUM: FOOTBALL AND T...
by John Ed Bradley 1 person voted »
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The Making of a Hitter: A Proven and Practical Step-by-Step Baseball Guide
The Making of a Hitter: A Proven and Practical ...
by Jack Perconte (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood W...
by Hugh Delahanty, Phil Jackson (Reader) 1 person voted »
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37
Open Net
Open Net
by George Plimpton 1 person voted »
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37
Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball
Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to ...
by Sam Walker 1 person voted »
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46
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hi...
by Jeremy Schaap 1 person voted »
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The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball
The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor ...
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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46
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 197...
by Jonathan Mahler 1 person voted »
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Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons
Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons
by Yogi Berra, Dave Kaplan 1 person voted »
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46
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck ...
by Joe Posnanski (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and t...
by Jeremy Schaap 1 person voted »
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Just Ballin': The Chaotic Rise of the New York Knicks
Just Ballin': The Chaotic Rise of the New York ...
by Mike Wise 1 person voted »
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Zim: A Baseball Life
Zim: A Baseball Life
by Don Zimmer, Bill Madden 1 person voted »
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Or...
by Kenny Moore 1 person voted »
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A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot 8-Inch, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays Football with the Pros
A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot 8-Inch, 170-Po...
by Stefan Fatsis 1 person voted »
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Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns
Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench w...
by Jack McCallum 1 person voted »
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Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox
Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy F...
by Bill Simmons 1 person voted »
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57
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling
The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs....
by Lewis A. Erenberg 1 person voted »
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s
A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roar...
by Roger Kahn 1 person voted »
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The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
by David Goldblatt 1 person voted »
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Ja...
by Geoffrey C. Ward 1 person voted »
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63
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World...
by Eliot Asinof 1 person voted »
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The Shadows of Boxing: Prince Naseem Hamed and Those He Left Behind
The Shadows of Boxing: Prince Naseem Hamed and ...
by Geoffrey Beattie 1 person voted »
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theo...
by Franklin Foer 1 person voted »
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The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football
The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football
by Paul Zimmerman 1 person voted »
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Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Pinstripes with the 1996 Yankees
Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Pinstripes with ...
by Joel Sherman 1 person voted »
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The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank
The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank
by Paul Zimmerman 1 person voted »
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The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team
The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell with Be...
by Jim Dent 1 person voted »
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Bear's Boys: Thirty-Six Men Whose Lives Were Changed by Coach Paul Bryant
Bear's Boys: Thirty-Six Men Whose Lives Were Ch...
by Eli Gold 1 person voted »
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The Missing Ring: How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize
The Missing Ring: How Bear Bryant and the 1966 ...
by Keith Dunnavant 1 person voted »
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Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football
Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the ...
by Stewart Mandel 1 person voted »
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Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports
Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports
by Lucy Danziger 1 person voted »
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Team;: A high school odyssey
Team;: A high school odyssey
by Richard Woodley 1 person voted »
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Black Coach
Black Coach
by Pat Jordan 1 person voted »
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Fourth and Long Gone
Fourth and Long Gone
by Pepper Rodgers 1 person voted »
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Steve Scott the Miler: America's Legendary Runner Talks About His Triumphs and Trials
Steve Scott the Miler: America's Legendary Runn...
by Steve Scott 1 person voted »
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The Milers
The Milers
by Cordner Nelson 1 person voted »
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American Miler: The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham
American Miler: The Life and Times of Glenn Cun...
by Paul J. Kiell 1 person voted »
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Distant Replay
Distant Replay
by Jerry Kramer 1 person voted »
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North Dallas Forty
North Dallas Forty
by Peter Gent 1 person voted »
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The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a...
by Sally Jenkins 1 person voted »
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No Finish Line
No Finish Line
by Marla Runyan, Sally Jenkins 1 person voted »
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Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens
Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of...
by Donald McRae 1 person voted »
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The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL
The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL
by Tim Green (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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91
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
by David Halberstam 1 person voted »
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The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight ...
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA...
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry
A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside Colleg...
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference
A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in th...
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four
Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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A Season Inside: One Year in College Basketball
A Season Inside: One Year in College Basketball
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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Forever's Team
Forever's Team
by John Feinstein 1 person voted »
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