Buzz Bissinger Books in Order

Buzz Bissinger follows Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell’s efforts to revive a struggling city. Political battles unfold alongside the lives of residents facing job losses, violence and family responsibilities, revealing the human stakes of urban decline and renewal.

A three-game Cardinals-Cubs series becomes a close examination of manager Tony La Russa’s work. With access to the team and dugout, Buzz Bissinger explores the strategic choices, emotional pressures and personal judgments behind major-league baseball.

LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger follow five Akron friends from youth basketball toward a national high-school championship. Their shared ambition is tested by personal hardship, jealousy and the growing attention surrounding James’s extraordinary talent.

Buzz Bissinger revisits Boobie Miles, whose football dreams collapsed after a devastating injury. Following the difficult years beyond Friday Night Lights, he examines their enduring friendship and the realities of race, class and rebuilding a life.

Buzz Bissinger takes a road trip with his adult son Zach, revisiting places where they lived together. The journey becomes an attempt to understand Zach’s experience of the world, his intellectual disabilities and his remarkable gifts.

Buzz Bissinger traces Mickey Mantle’s career and enduring place in baseball, looking beyond the statistics to the player himself. Marvin E. Newman’s photographs accompany the account of Mantle’s years with the New York Yankees.

On Guadalcanal in 1944, two Marine regiments field teams filled with former college football stars. Buzz Bissinger follows the players from their American beginnings through this wartime game and into the devastating battle for Okinawa.