25 Best Sports Books
Goal: Find the best Sports books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best sports books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
25 Best Sports Books
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Paper Lion
Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
by George Plimpton
Also recommended by:
Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby
Seabiscuit
An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
by Phil Knight
Open
An Autobiography
by Andre Agassi
Also recommended by:
Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Ferriss, Bill Gates, Shaun White, Dave Elitch
A Sense of Where You Are
Bill Bradley at Princeton
by John McPhee
Also recommended by:
Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall
Also recommended by:
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Also recommended by:
A Good Walk Spoiled
Days and Nights on the PGA Tour
by John Feinstein
A Season on the Brink
A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
by John Feinstein
Ali
A Life
by Jonathan Eig
America's Game
The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
by Michael MacCambridge
Bottom of the 33rd
Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game
by Dan Barry
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
A True Story of Hoop Dreams and One Very Special Team
by Madeleine Blais
The Boys of Winter
The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
by Wayne Coffey
The Game
by Ken Dryden
Those Guys Have All the Fun
Inside the World of ESPN
by Tom Shales
Sources
- 1
The 25 Best Sports Books of All Time To Read in 2021 – SPY
spy.com
- 2
The 33 Best Sports Books to Add to Your Reading List
menshealth.com
- 3
The 33 Best Sports Books Ever Written | Esquire
esquire.com
- 4
The 64 Best Sports Books of All Time | Men's Journal
mensjournal.com
- 5
The best sports books, according to the Washington Post Sports staff - The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com
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