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<![CDATA[Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game]]>
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1977
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<![CDATA[Ball Four]]>
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<![CDATA[Seabiscuit: An American Legend]]>
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<![CDATA[The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game]]>
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<![CDATA[It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life]]>
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<![CDATA[The Boys of Summer]]>
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571
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<![CDATA[Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life]]>
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<![CDATA[Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made]]>
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<![CDATA[Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball]]>
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<![CDATA[Shoeless Joe]]>
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<![CDATA[Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer]]>
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<![CDATA[Season on the Brink]]>
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<![CDATA[October 1964]]>
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<![CDATA[The GM: The Inside Story of a Dream Job and the Nightmares that Go with It]]>
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<![CDATA[The Fight]]>
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<![CDATA[Cobb: A Biography]]>
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<![CDATA[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]]>
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<![CDATA[Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine]]>
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<![CDATA[The Education of a Coach]]>
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<![CDATA[Fever Pitch]]>
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<![CDATA[Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback]]>
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<![CDATA[The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness]]>
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<![CDATA[The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract]]>
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<![CDATA[Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith]]>
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<![CDATA[Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World]]>
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<![CDATA[When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi]]>
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<![CDATA[Semi-Tough: A Novel]]>
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<![CDATA[The Last Protest: Lee Evans in Mexico City]]>
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<![CDATA[The Last Season: A Team In Search of Its Soul]]>
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<![CDATA[Summer of '49]]>
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<![CDATA[Breaks of the Game]]>
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<![CDATA[Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major]]>
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<![CDATA[Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL]]>
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<![CDATA[Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines]]>
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<![CDATA[Bo Knows Bo]]>
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<![CDATA[Not the Triumph But the Struggle: 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete]]>
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<![CDATA[Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager]]>
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<![CDATA[Tyson: Nurture of the Beast]]>
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<![CDATA[IT NEVER RAINS IN TIGER STADIUM: FOOTBALL AND THE GAME OF LIFE]]>
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<![CDATA[The Making of a Hitter: A Proven and Practical Step-by-Step Baseball Guide]]>
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<![CDATA[Sugar Ray: The Sugar Ray Robinson Story]]>
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<![CDATA[Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons Of A Hardwood Warrior]]>
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<![CDATA[Open Net]]>
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<![CDATA[Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball]]>
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<![CDATA[Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season]]>
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<![CDATA[Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics]]>
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<![CDATA[The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor in Division I College Basketball]]>
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<![CDATA[Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City]]>
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<![CDATA[Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons]]>
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<![CDATA[The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America]]>
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<![CDATA[Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History]]>
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<![CDATA[Just Ballin': The Chaotic Rise of the New York Knicks]]>
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<![CDATA[Zim: A Baseball Life]]>
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<![CDATA[Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder]]>
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<![CDATA[A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot 8-Inch, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays Football with the Pros]]>
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<![CDATA[The Ultimate Baseball Road-Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums]]>
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<![CDATA[America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation]]>
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<![CDATA[Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns]]>
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<![CDATA[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]]>
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<![CDATA[The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling]]>
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<![CDATA[A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s]]>
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<![CDATA[The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer]]>
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<![CDATA[Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson]]>
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<![CDATA[Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series]]>
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<![CDATA[The Shadows of Boxing: Prince Naseem Hamed and Those He Left Behind]]>
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<![CDATA[How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization]]>
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<![CDATA[The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football]]>
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<![CDATA[A Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football]]>
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<![CDATA[Birth of a Dynasty: Behind the Pinstripes with the 1996 Yankees]]>
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<![CDATA[The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank]]>
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<![CDATA[Duane Thomas and the Fall of America's Team]]>
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<![CDATA[The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team]]>
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<![CDATA[Bear's Boys: Thirty-Six Men Whose Lives Were Changed by Coach Paul Bryant]]>
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<![CDATA[The Missing Ring: How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize]]>
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<![CDATA[Bear: My Hard Life & Good Times As Alabama's Head Coach with CD]]>
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<![CDATA[A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete]]>
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<![CDATA[Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy that Reign Over College Football]]>
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<![CDATA[Nike is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports]]>
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<![CDATA[Team;: A high school odyssey]]>
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<![CDATA[Black Coach]]>
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<![CDATA[Fourth and Long Gone]]>
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<![CDATA[Steve Scott the Miler: America's Legendary Runner Talks About His Triumphs and Trials]]>
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<![CDATA[The Milers]]>
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<![CDATA[American Miler: The Life and Times of Glenn Cunningham]]>
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<![CDATA[Distant Replay]]>
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<![CDATA[North Dallas Forty]]>
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<![CDATA[The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation]]>
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<![CDATA[No Finish Line]]>
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<![CDATA[Heroes Without a Country: America's Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens]]>
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<![CDATA[The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL]]>
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<![CDATA[The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship]]>
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<![CDATA[The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal]]>
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<![CDATA[The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever]]>
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<![CDATA[A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour]]>
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<![CDATA[A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry]]>
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<![CDATA[A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference]]>
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<![CDATA[Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game]]>
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<![CDATA[Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four]]>
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<![CDATA[A Season Inside: One Year in College Basketball]]>
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<![CDATA[Forever's Team]]>
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