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10-09-2007 , 09:22 AM

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Okay, I haven't read a good sports book in a long time. In the past I enjoyed books by Mike Lupica and John Feinstein. I pretty much would like to stick to reading books on either basketball (college or pro), football (college or pro), tennis, golf, or hockey. I have no interest in Olympic sports/X Games/swimming,etc. Pretty much just what I listed.

Can anybody give me any solid suggestions or point me in a direction of a good author (Is Feinstein still the way to go).

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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10-09-2007 , 09:34 AM

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Might want to post in Sporting Events.

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10-09-2007 , 09:47 AM

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lol, Matt Christopher.

Is there any chance that guy wasn't a boy-hungry pedophile?

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10-09-2007 , 09:50 AM

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Moneyball is a good read.

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10-09-2007 , 09:54 AM

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Moneyball is a good read.

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10-09-2007 , 09:59 AM

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Moneyball is a good read.

So is The Blind Side.

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10-09-2007 , 10:04 AM

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lol I love Matt Christopher. You really think Catcher with A Glass Arm was his best?

I was a big fan of "The Kid Who Only Hit Homers"

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10-09-2007 , 10:07 AM

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"The Miracle of St. Anthony," about Bob Hurley's basketball program at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, is a great read.

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10-09-2007 , 10:08 AM

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"Friday Night Lights" by H. G. Bissinger

If you have seen the movie, you have seen the drama of the team that year, but you are missing the detailed portrait that Bissinger paints of the whole town.

At the time, the residents thought it was a hatchet job (Bissinger reports the explicit racism he encounters, contrasts the funds funneled into football versus academics, etc). In fact it led to a de-emphasis on football. Ironic considering how the movie then seems to celebrate the football achievements again.

Very good read.

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10-09-2007 , 10:14 AM

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This list was made in '02 and is mostly old books, but some great ones in there.

Top 100

Season on the Brink is great, inside look at Knight and the Hoosiers.

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10-09-2007 , 11:11 AM

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"Friday Night Lights" by H. G. Bissinger

Excellent book.

Also: The Miracle of Castel di Sangro and The Color of Money (fiction, but truly excellent).

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10-09-2007 , 11:16 AM

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Pretty much anything written by Dan Jenkins.

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10-09-2007 , 11:19 AM

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friday night lights, moneyball, blind side, the st anthony book - all awesome.

right now i am reading "the punch" by feinstein about the rudy t/kermit washington incident - it's phenomenal.

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10-09-2007 , 11:42 AM

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I enjoyed these as a kid

http://www.screechowls.com/books/index.html

somewhat childish but still easy reads

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10-09-2007 , 11:56 AM

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i loved "the big black fire" I don't remember the author, but it was about Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion

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10-09-2007 , 11:56 AM

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the game.

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10-09-2007 , 11:58 AM

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Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four Ball Four.

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10-09-2007 , 12:03 PM

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lol, Matt Christopher.

Is there any chance that guy wasn't a boy-hungry pedophile?

If you go to his website everything is written in present tense. "Matt Christopher is a best selling author.." "He is the writer young kids turn to.." "He has written over 100 books.."

It's really creepy because he died 10 years ago....

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10-09-2007 , 12:09 PM

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i like those big screens at bellagio, and the drinks are free too.

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10-09-2007 , 12:58 PM

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two great john mcphee books:

a sense of where you are (about bill bradley)

levels of the game (about arthur ashe)

i hate reading and therefore rarely do it but i loved both of these.

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10-09-2007 , 01:02 PM

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Seven Seconds Or Less, by Jack McCallum, who is SI's lead NBA writer. Chronicles the 2007-2008 NBA champion Phoenix Suns' 2005-2006 season, when injuries to Amare Stoudemire, Kurt Thomas, and Raja Bell derailed what would have been a sure championship season in most interesting fashion. Good stuff.

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10-09-2007 , 01:03 PM

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JoA beat me to it. Ball Four is my favorite sports book hands down.

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10-09-2007 , 01:16 PM

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Education of a Coach, by David Halberstam (RIP)

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10-09-2007 , 02:41 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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10-09-2007 , 03:16 PM

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JoA beat me to it. Ball Four is my favorite sports book hands down.

Smoke him inside
Let's go pound some Budwieser
Good hands

I read that book 20+ years ago and still use these quotes. Of course I'm the only one who knows what the hell I'm talking about. But I crack myself up.

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