Enjoyable Sports Books

Kramer. · #1 10-09-2007, 01:16 PM

Education of a Coach, by David Halberstam (RIP)

Anacardo · #2 10-09-2007, 02:41 PM

Just go down that SI Top 100 list. I did. You won't regret it.

Their #1, The Sweet Science, is very, very good, though I had to dig a copy out of the University of Texas Archives.

BretWeir · #3 10-09-2007, 03:58 PM

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Just go down that SI Top 100 list. I did. You won't regret it.

Their #1, The Sweet Science, is very, very good, though I had to dig a copy out of the University of Texas Archives.

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It's been reissued and you can get it on Amazon now. I just started reading it, and so far it's very good.

Another vote for "Ball Four." Two other good baseball books in the same vein are "The Bronx Zoo" by Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock (about the Billy Martin era Yankees) and "Seasons in Hell" by Mike Shropshire (about the Whitey Herzog/Billy Martin era Rangers).