Bracketology: March Madness, College Basketball, and the Creation of a National Obsession
By: Joe Lunardi
3.62
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Lunardi delves into the early days of Bracketology, details its growth, and dispels the myths of th…
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1. Sacred Hoops: SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
By: Phil Jackson , Hugh Delehanty
4.01
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
With a new introduction, Phil Jackson's modern classic of motivation, teamwork, and Zen insight is … read more
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2. The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
By: Jonah Keri
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailin… read more
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3. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
By: H.G. Bissinger
3.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more
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4. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
By: B.J. Novak
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
From an actor, writer, and director of the hit TV comedy The Office (US version):a story collection… read more
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5. Moneyball
By: Michael Lewis
4.26
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more
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"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"-Michael Lewis, Moneyball
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6. The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry
By: John Feinstein
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends--Un… read more
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7. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more
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8. When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball
By: Seth Davis
4.44
Format: 224 pages,
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9. Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History
By: None
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Moneyballmeets The City Gamein this compelling look at how the NBA champion Golden State Warriors e… read more
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10. Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
By: John Bloom , Jim Atkinson
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that… read more
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11. A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
By: John Feinstein
4.08
Format: 288 pages,
"A Season on the Brink" chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the In… read more
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12. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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13. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
By: Joshua Robinson
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer’s Premier League became the wi… read more
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"The rise of the English Premier League is a story about the sports world's wildest gold rush. In the span of twenty-five years, the league's twenty clubs have increased their combined value by 10,000…"-Joshua Robinson, The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
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14. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
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15. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
By: Joe Posnanski
4.56
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more
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16. Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age
By: Matt Fitzgerald
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Matt Fitzgerald has already made a name for himself in the endurance sport community with books lik… read more
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17. Southernmost
By: Silas House
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more
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"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"-Silas House, Southernmost
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18. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more
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19. Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From Jeff Pearlman―the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus ―comes the rollickin… read more
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20. Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA
By: Kirk Goldsberry
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco… read more
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21. Tiger & Phil: Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry
By: Bob Harig
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Bob Harig's Tiger & Phil provides an in-depth chronicle of the decades-long rivalry that drove the … read more
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22. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth
By: Nick Greene
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game crea… read more
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23. Bracketology: March Madness, College Basketball, and the Creation of a National Obsession
By: Joe Lunardi
3.62
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Lunardi delves into the early days of Bracketology, details its growth, and dispels the myths of th… read more
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24. The Back Roads to March: The Unsung, Unheralded, and Unknown Heroes of a College Basketball Season
By: John Feinstein
3.88
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago after changing the sports book landscape with his mega-hit, A Season on the Brink… read more
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25. Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
By: Greg Larson
4.26
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
"If Clubbie isn't the best piece of baseball literature since Ball Four , it's the leader in the cl… read more
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"It turned out that life only mattered inasmuch as it could be sectioned off on baseball's terms."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
"Days during the baseball season don't start with M, T, W, F, or S. They only start with G or O: game day or off day."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
"Baseball taught me how to love. The game made sense to me, and spending time with it felt more like an obsessive relationship than a simple want."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
"I floated away into that omnipresent timelessness of baseball, where boys with a dream and long-expired Major Leaguers orbit forever on equal planes."-Greg Larson, Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
26. The Midrange Theory
By: Seth Partnow
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
At its core, the goal of any basketball team is relatively take and make good shots while preventi… read more
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27. Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis
By: Dean Oliver
4.06
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
At the risk of succumbing to hyperbole, Basketball on Paper is a revolutionary strike for statistic… read more
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28. Black Market: An Insider's Journey into the High-Stakes World of College Basketball
By: Merl Code
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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29. Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America
By: Albert Chen
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
APPLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH SELECTION "We devoured [this] engrossing account of the battle fo… read more
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30. The Road to J.O.Y.: Leading with Faith, Playing with Purpose, Leaving a Legacy
By: Scott Drew
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Scott Drew, head basketball coach of the NCAA National Championship-winning Baylor Bears, rebuilt a… read more
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31. Miracles on the Hardwood: The Hope-and-a-Prayer Story of a Winning Tradition in Catholic College Basketball
By: John Gasaway
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Discover the David vs. Goliath rise of Catholic college basketball, from Villanova to Georgetown to… read more
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