Enjoyable Sports Books

[SamIAm]

I got a pre-print of this, and found I really liked it.

[MVPaul]

"The last season" by Phil Jackson. It's his personnal diary from the '04 NBA season coaching a Lakers squad with 4 future Hall of Famers. Very interesting to see the inner workings of life in the NBA.

[sethypooh21]

+1 for

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Fever Pitch
Castel di Sangro
Moneyball (YOUK!!!!)/Blindside
FNL
Miracle of St. Anthony

some of Lupica's fiction is very good

Rick Reilly's "Missing Links" one of the funniest books I've ever read and far better than his SI columns.

The Mind of Bill James - half-SABR, half-biography

Fantasyland - one dude trying to win an "expert" baseball fantasy league.

Can I Keep My Jersey? - Paul Shirley doing his "My so-called career" thing.

Breaks of the Game - Halberstam at his best.

[stabn]

I'm currently reading Q school by feinstein and it is pretty entertaining so far.

I also really enjoyed a couple of golf fiction books by Troon McAllister (The Green, Scratch).

[kyleb]

Moneyball

[DrewDevil]

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Rick Reilly's "Missing Links" one of the funniest books I've ever read and far better than his SI columns.

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Wow, I thought I was the only person who ever read this. This is an awesome read. NOTE: it is fiction.

[Dids]

Early Feinstein is almost all good. A Season on The Brink, Good Walk Spoiled.

Later Feinstein is almost all bad. The guy's a good writer, but he grinds his axes pretty hard and that doesn't work well with this super smug attitude.

I really like Balls by Graig Nettles, or I did when I read it like 4 times 10 years ago.

[PRE]

Cobb by Al Stump is quite possibly the best baseball bio ever written.

[moayer]

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The Blind Side.

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[Dudd]

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By the way this Bill Plaschke book with Tommy Lasorda ("I Live for this!" looks like it could be a solid choice when it gets released.

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Please tell me someone informed Plaschke about the existence of multiple sentence paragraphs before he decided to write a book.