Sports books

Anyone have any recommendations? I haven't read too many. Just a biography on Bart Starr and just finished My Team by Larry Dierker.


So, you guys got any favorites?

 

I really enjoyed The 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments but I know you would have no interest in that. But I recommend it for any hockey fan.

 

Yeah, sorry, that was my bad. I forgot to mention that I was only talking about sports that matter.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning- by Jonathan Mahler

An excellent book concerning the politics of New York of the late 70's, intertwined with the 1977 Yankees.

 

I know. That's why I didn't mention an MMA book.

 

Are we really gonna do this right now? lol

 

Do what?

 

This.

 

"Ball Four" by Jim Bouton. The first of the 'tell-all' sports books.

 

I forgot about Moneyball. Read that one last year, it was actually really good.

 

I've read that one. Also it's funny.

 

It's an oldie, but I remember reading and enjoying The Summer Game by Roger Angell.
And I agree on Ball Four - I liked that one as well.

 

There's Jon Krakauker's book on Pat Tillman, though I have not yet read it.

 

Pete Sampras: A Champions Mind

 

I've actually never really gotten into reading sports books. Tons of other stuff, but not many sports ones. I have read Coach K's books, and enjoyed them (they're as much about life as they are about basketball), but that's really about it.

 

I mainly read sports books that deal with Boston sports, but you may still like The Rivalry, which talks about the Russel-Chamberlain rivalry.

Also, This is one of the most unique, interesting basketball books ever. And it has some of the coolest illustrations.



edit: You're a Suns fan, so Seven Seconds or Less should be right in your wheelhouse. Its pretty good. I can't believe I didn't immediately think of it...

 

"Venus Envy" has a great title, but alas, it's about woman's tennis.

 

"The Game of Our Lives" by Peter Gzowski.

 

Summer of 49 by David Halberstam, one of the best sports books ever written. Admittedly, it helps to be a Yankee or Red Sox fan, but it's still a must read fro anyone who loves baseball.

Oh, I think you'll like the ending of The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness by Buster Olney.

 

I have read that, and it's a good one.

 

"The Yankee Years" by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci is a great chronicle of the Yankees late-90s dynasty and post-2000 downfall under Torre.

 

"The Game" by Ken Dryden

 

"A Good Walk Spoiled" by John Feinstein

 

Larry Dierker wrote a book?!

I just started cracking Sports Guy's 'Book of Basketball,' and you should too.

 

Just read a fantastic book by jockey Jerry Bailey called Against the Odds: Riding for my Life.

In it he details a massive struggle with alcoholism and his journey to becoming one of the greatest jockeys to grace the sport. It is relatively cheap used so if you have any interest in the horse racing industry at all I suggest reading it.

I got chills when he described Cigar's races.