Best Sports Books

[OumaFan]

Like always when I decide to make a list I instantly forget a number of obvious ones.

Anyway, a surprising amount of soccer books came to mind for me.

The Black Lights by Thomas Hauser, boxing. Amazon.com: BLACK LIGHTS: INSIDE THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL BOXING (Sweet Science: Boxing in Literature and History) (9781557285973): THOMAS HAUSER: Books

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer by, well, somebody, follows the group of Alabama football fans that have bought RVs and drive around to each game and do really nothing else, nuttos. Edit-by Warren St. John. Amazon.com: Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania (9780609807132): Warren St. John: Books

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, soccer. Amazon.com: Fever Pitch (9781573226882): Nick Hornby: Books

The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McInness, soccer. Amazon.com: The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy (9780767905992): Joe McGinniss: Books

The Professional by W.C. Heinz. A pretty famous old sportswriter, this is actually a fictional book about boxing, a sports writer gets invited to the training camp of a 1950's middleweight contender and follows him there through who his shot agianst the middleweight champ who seemed pretty SRR'ish to me. Amazon.com: The Professional (9780306810589): W.c. Heinz, W. C. Heinz: Books

Strangely enough, thinking about this I've read almost no sports biographies.

[amat]

I have The Professional maybe I will read that.

The Horse that God Built, awesome book I liked it a lot better then the one that got the movie, Seabiscuit. Amazon.com: The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse (9780312367244): Lawrence Scanlan: Books

Shit I have to go will post more later.