re: Good Sports Books

Ball Four - Jim Bouton
Next Man Up - John Feinstein
Moneyball - Michael Lewis
A Season Inside - John Feinstein
How Soccer Explains The World - Franklin Foer
The Beckham Experiment - Grant Wahl
One Dream: The NFL - Woody Falgoux
The Punch - John Feinstein
The Last Amateurs - John Feinstein
Life on the Rim - David Levine
Living on the Black - John Feinstein
Namath - Mark Kreigel
Pistol - Mark Kreigel
The Bad Guys Won - Jeff Pearlman
The Rookie: A Season with Sidney Crosby and the New NHL - Shawna Richer
Play Ball - John Feinstein
Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige
America's Team - Filip Bondy

That's all I can think of right now. If you haven't read anything by John Feinstein, you should.

ETA: Summer of '49 - David Halberstam

ETA, part 2: Eight Men Out - Eliot Asinof
Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella (It's fiction, but it's the book "Field of Dreams" was based on, and is far better than the movie, IMO.)

Necessary reads, given the subject matter, even though the books weren't that great:
Game of Shadows - Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
It Never Rains In Tiger Stadium - John Ed Bradley






Oh, almost forgot this gem:

Real Grass, Real Heroes by Dom Dimaggio (written about the summer of 1941 baseball season with Joe D and Teddy Ballgame at the fore)

Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
Beyond the 6th Game by Peter Gammons

The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost (about Francis Ouimet's improbably victory in the 1913 US Open over Vardon and Ray)

Grand Slam by Mark Frost (about Bobbie Jones and the Grand Slam by more a biography of Jones and the times he played)

Ball Four by Jim Bouton (hilarious)

Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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I'm liking this topic. I'm thinking about getting a Kindle or Nook, so it would be great to have all of these books on it

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The Kindle is probably the best purchase/gift I've got in 5+ years. It is the tits!

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The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost (about Francis Ouimet's improbably victory in the 1913 US Open over Vardon and Ray)

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The Match

Friday Night Lights (even if you've seen the movie)

Meat Market

The Last Shot (written about Coney Island & Lincoln HS basketball and one of them was a freshman named Stephon Marbury before anyone knew who he was)

I agree on the book shelf.

I saw someone throw out the Underwood book on Ted Williams. I've read everything on the subject, and by far, without a close second, Leigh Montville's biography is the best.

Not a masterpiece by any means, but fun reading about SEC football, is Clay Travis' book he wrote about travelling to away games with friends. Not that it provides any profound insight, I just enjoy his humor.

ball four
season on the brink
hoop dreams
agassi and ecstasy
heaven is a playground
the bullpen gospels
bang the drum slowly


if you have kids, tell them to read the Chip Hilton Sports Series. those bitches are amazing. it's a 24 book series and i've read all 24 about ten times each.

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Do you know how fast they get books on the Kindle? There's a number of sports books that aren't on it, but they have that link that you click to tell them you want it on the Kindle. Is their goal to get all books on there?

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Yea I assume they're gonna try to get everything on there. It's kinda like getting a Blueray. At first some things won't release but eventually they'll all be. Same thing with the Kindle; I have really only ever had one or two books that weren't available and they were foreign books.

Call me biased but personally I'd recommend the Kindle. It's SO much faster than the Nook. Maybe the Nook has gotten better but my brother-in-law has one and we're talk ~5 seconds to turn the page. The Kindle is instantaneous; waiting that 5 seconds would drive me crazy.

I know I'm getting the Kindle for sure, but I'm still waiting on a few books to make it on there. If I keep requesting it from the same computer, would they be able to tell that?