Sport-Related Books

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Based on a book discussion thread in the Locker Room, below are some favorite sport-related books that SportsFilter members have mentioned. The username of the first person to mention the title is in parenthesis:

Baseball

• The Great American Novel by Philip Roth (kickerofelves)
• You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting (kickerofelves)
• The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life Of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff (kickerofelves)
• Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top by Seth Mnookin (justgary)
• Summer of '49 by David Halberstam (The_Black_Hand)
• Tales From the Dugout: The Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever Told by Mike Shannon (littleLebowski)
• Baseball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Batter's Box by Eric Bronson. (The Crafty Sousepaw)
• The Natural by Bernard Malamud (The_Black_Hand)
• Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof (rcade)
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (rcade)
• Ball Four: The Final Pitch by Jim Bouton (rcade)
• Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong Edited by Jonah Keri (SummersEve)
• The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J.Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
• Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan by Nolan Ryan (Texan_lost_in_NY)
• Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks by Zack Hample (NoMich)
• Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates by John Albert (NoMich)
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James (grum@work)
• Baseball as America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game by National Baseball Hall Of Fame and National Geographic (The Crafty Sousepaw)
• Blood Feud: The Red Sox, the Yankees, and the Struggle of Good versus Evil by Bill Nowlin and Jim Prime (The_Black_Hand)
• Veeck As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck by Bill Veeck (kickerofelves)
• Bang The Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (kickerofelves)
• Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel (kickerofelves)
• Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox by Allan Wood (trox)

Basketball

• A March to Madness: A View from the Floor in the Atlantic Coast Conference by John Feinstein (tieguy)
• Four Corners: How Unc, N.C. State, Duke, and Wake Forest Made North Carolina the Center of the Basketball Universe by Joe Menzer
• Season on the Brink by John Feinstein (tieguy)

Football (American)

• Everybody's All-American by Frank Deford (The_Black_Hand)
• Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger (lil_brown_bat)
• I Am Third by Gale Sayers (Texan_lost_in_NY)
• Landry: The Legend And The Legacy by Bob St. John (Texan_lost_in_NY)
• Mad Ducks and Bears by George Plimpton (NoMich)
• North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent (The_Black_Hand)
• Paper Lion by George Plimpton (NoMich)
• Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania by Warren St. John (tieguy)

Football (Soccer)

• Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War by Conor O’Callaghan (Fence)
• My Favourite Year: A Collection of New Football Writing edited by Nick Hornby (terrapin)
• Among the Thugs by Bill Buford (terrapin)
• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (terrapin)
• How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer (Texan_lost_in_NY)
• Football Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper (owlhouse)
• Up Where Cazaly? by Ian Turner and Leonie Sandercock (owlhouse)
• The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt (trox)
• Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America's Forgotten Game by David Wangerin (trox)

General Sports

Culture of Sports

• A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley (Venicemenace)
• Road Swing: One Fan's Journey Into The Soul Of America's Sports by Steve Rushin (owlhouse)

Martial Arts

• Autumn Lightning by Dave Lowry (lil_brown_bat)

Women in Sports

• In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais (lil_brown_bat)
• Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sports edited by Joli Sandoz and Joby Winans (lil_brown_bat)

Golf

• The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour by George Plimpton (NoMich)
• Missing Links by Rick Reilly (hawkguy)
• Train: A Novel by Pete Dexter (Fat Buddha)

Hockey

• Behind the Red Line by Tod Hartje (kickerofelves)
• Brodeur: Beyond the Crease by Damien Cox, Martin Brodeur, and Denis Brodeur (MrFrisby)
• Cold War by Roy Macskimming (kickerofelves)
• The Game by Ken Dryden (WeedyMcSmokey)
• Goon by Doug Smith (kickerofelves)
• Open Net: A Professional Amateur in the World of Big-Time Hockey by George Plimpton (NoMich)
• Tropic Of Hockey by Dave Bidini (kickerofelves)

Outdoors / Adventure Sports

Kayaking

• The Last River by Todd Balf (lil_brown_bat)
• Every Crushing Stroke by Scott Shipley (lil_brown_bat)

Sports Photography

• Game Face by Jane Gottesman (lil_brown_bat)