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BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF ALL TIME
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Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer
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4.23 avg rating — 2,539 ratings
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Champions: 15 Inspiring Comeback Stories from Sports and Life
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Moneyball
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4.27 avg rating — 142,292 ratings
score: 299,
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Football Genius (Football Genius, #1)
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Tim Green (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 6,534 ratings
score: 294,
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
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4.28 avg rating — 6,715 ratings
score: 286,
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The Corridor of Uncertainty: How Cricket Mended a Torn Nation
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Nihar Suthar (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 200,
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The Basketball Diaries
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3.99 avg rating — 31,548 ratings
score: 199,
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When the Game Was Ours
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4.23 avg rating — 15,900 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Playing for Pizza
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 56,079 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Calico Joe
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 49,390 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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Bleachers
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 45,944 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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My race be won
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Sports Illustrated: The Basketball Book
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4.28 avg rating — 197 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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Sports Illustrated: The Football Book
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4.30 avg rating — 213 ratings
score: 174,
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Sports Illustrated: Fifty Years of Great Writing: 50th Anniversary 1954-2004
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4.13 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 172,
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2 people voted
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Soccer Skills & Drills
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3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
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David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,533 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life
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3.91 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game
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Dan Barry (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 2,504 ratings
score: 100,
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The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
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Howard Bryant (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 1,904 ratings
score: 100,
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 230,293 ratings
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Before We Ever Spoke (Cooper Madison Series Book 1)
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Dan Largent (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 121 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Sports Illustrated Hockey's Greatest
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4.50 avg rating — 34 ratings
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1 person voted
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Eye on the Ball (Playing for Glory, #1)
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Francine Beaton (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 49 ratings
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1 person voted
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Fast Cash
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Rob Clooney (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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4.23 avg rating — 167,538 ratings
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1 person voted
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Surviving The Second Tier
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M.K. Lever (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 100,
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Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle
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4.02 avg rating — 492 ratings
score: 99,
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The Nazi Olympics
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3.49 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 99,
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Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
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3.92 avg rating — 200 ratings
score: 99,
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Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan's Soul: Stories of Insight, Inspiration and Laughter in the World of Sport
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3.90 avg rating — 195 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
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Neal Bascomb (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 10,067 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 20,029 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Last Season of Weeb Ewbank
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4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 97,
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Heat
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score: 97,
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Sports Slump Busting
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story
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4.12 avg rating — 173 ratings
score: 96,
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How to Be Like Mike: Life Lessons about Basketball's Best
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4.32 avg rating — 341 ratings
score: 95,
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Team: A High School Odyssey
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Black Coach
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 94,
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All the Good in Sports: True Stories That Go Beyond the Headlines
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Mike Sandrolini (editor)
3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 93,
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Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
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4.21 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Sports Illustrated The 50th Anniversary Book: 1954-2004
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3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book
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4.30 avg rating — 267 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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North Dallas Forty
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3.90 avg rating — 1,649 ratings
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America's Team: The Authorized History of the Dallas Cowboys
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4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 90,
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Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding
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4.35 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 90,
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When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi
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David Maraniss (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 9,107 ratings
score: 88,
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Dallas Cowboys America's Team: Celebrating 50 Years of Championship NFL Football
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Ed Housewright (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 87,
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They Call Me Coach
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4.18 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
score: 87,
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Counting Coup
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4.17 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
score: 86,
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Body Surfing (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #4)
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3.35 avg rating — 21,088 ratings
score: 85,
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West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief
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Steven Kotler (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 900 ratings
score: 84,
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Body Surfing
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3.32 avg rating — 149 ratings
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game That Changed American Sports
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3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
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4.18 avg rating — 27,822 ratings
score: 82,
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Surfing California
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4.42 avg rating — 62 ratings
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