Best books on sport

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Open: An Autobiography
by Andre Agassi
2,653 members
101 reviews
4.1
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The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
by David Goldblatt
425 members
11 reviews
4.2
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Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games
by A. Bartlett Giamatti
218 members
49 reviews
½ 3.6
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What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
by Dave Zirin
171 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, Canada, and the Day Everything Changed
by Stephen Brunt
67 members
3.2
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Major League Losers: The Real Cost Of Sports And Who's Paying For It
by Mark S. Rosentraub
41 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
by Matt Rendell
153 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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Searching for Bobby Orr
by Stephen Brunt
133 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
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Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League
by Neal Conan
48 members
4
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life
by Alex Bellos
267 members
4 reviews
3.8
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The Longest Season
by Cal Ripken
94 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Hockey Dreams
by David Adams Richards
31 members
3.8
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14
Shoeless Joe
by W. P. Kinsella
2,166 members
47 reviews
4
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The Fight
by Norman Mailer
865 members
18 reviews
3.9
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All Those Mornings-- at the Post
by Shirley Povich
54 members
1 review
3.8
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
6,156 members
141 reviews
4.2
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18
The Umpire Strikes Back
by Ron Luciano
216 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes
by Gary Imlach
133 members
7 reviews
4
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1,610 members
35 reviews
4
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21
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Geoffrey C. Ward
262 members
3 reviews
4
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Rough Ride
by Paul Kimmage
176 members
6 reviews
3.8
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23
Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
by John Sexton
174 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
by George F. Will
1,125 members
16 reviews
3.9
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Le Tour: A History of the Tour de France
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
108 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Only a Game?: The Diary of a Professional Footballer
by Eamon Dunphy
78 members
1 review
3.9
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Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling - The True Story
by Willy Voet
71 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football
by David Winner
435 members
12 reviews
3.8
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Tomorrow, we ride...
by Jean Bobet
27 members
3.8
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The Day Italian Football Died: Torino and the Tragedy of Superga
by Alexandra Manna
11 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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