Best Sports Book

[Jack of Arcades]

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I think I read all of these when I was a kid. Like two a day one summer vacation.

[Vyse]

Moneyball.

[bruin]

A Season on the Brink, by John Feinstein
Wilt, 1961 by Gary Pomerantz

[wisehandpoker]

Love Halberstam, love Ball Four, but if I'm taking one baseball book to the sesert isle forever, it's Bill James' Histoical Baseball Abstract.

[hoopsie44]

Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof. Great book about 1919 Black Sox and their dumping of the World Series against the Reds.

[Punker]

Game of our lives, by Peter Gzowski. A season long account of the Edmonton Oilers in the very early 1980s (pre-Stanley cup years). Don't miss the part about Paul Coffey being afraid to get shaved!

[kidcolin]

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I think I read all of these when I was a kid. Like two a day one summer vacation.

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We all did, JoA, we all did.

[JaredL]

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I think I read all of these when I was a kid. Like two a day one summer vacation.

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We all did, JoA, we all did.

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Just want to confirm that this is the guy. I distinctly recall 3 stories:
- high school basketball team plays in the state tournament. Standard underdog hero story, small town yada yada yada. They sleep on wrestling mats in the gym instead of a hotel due to some mixup. In the end they <font color="white">lose in the championship game when they miss a last-second shot</font>.
- (hero) football team plays a match against a school for the deaf. For cadence they go to the rhythm of a bass drum played by the school band. That's all I can remember from that one but it probably followed the team's season in other matches as well.
- a magical table hockey game always predicts the outcomes of matches played the next day. Exactly.

[kyro]

I have the 3rd book, Ice Magic I think, Jared.

My favorite is obviously "The Kid Who Only Hit Homers." George Baruth was quite the hitting coach.

[JaredL]

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I have the 3rd book, Ice Magic I think, Jared.

My favorite is obviously "The Kid Who Only Hit Homers." George Baruth was quite the hitting coach.

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Little leaguer that uses a wood bat?