7 Top biography books like A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back by Ben Crenshaw

Cover of A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back by Ben Crenshaw

A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

By: Ben Crenshaw

3.71

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

"I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about…

If you liked the biography plot in A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back by Ben Crenshaw , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf by Mark Frost

1. The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf

By: Mark Frost

4.43

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed The Greatest Game Ever Played comes The Gra… read more

Similar categories in Mark Frost's The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"Our modern perception of "amateur" suggests someone who does something poorly or with a lack of professionalism, but the Latin root of the word "amateur" is amor, someone who pursues a pastime out of…"

-Mark Frost, The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf

Cover of Beyond the Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

2. Beyond the Boys of Summer

By: Roger Kahn

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Presents a showcase of fifty years' worth of Roger Kahn's work. This book is organized around life'… read more

Similar categories in Roger Kahn's Beyond the Boys of Summer book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig

3. Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

By: Jonathan Eig

3.70

Format: 336 pages,

April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson ste… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Eig's Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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4. 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

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Moneyball book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

Cover of Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

5. Shoeless Joe

By: W.P. Kinsella

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more

Similar categories in W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • sports
"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

6. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more

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Cover of Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck

7. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

By: Alan Shipnuck

4.06

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more

Similar categories in Alan Shipnuck's Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game by Tom Coyne

8. A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game

By: Tom Coyne

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the best golf books this century.” — Golf Digest From Tom Coyn… read more

Similar categories in Tom Coyne's A Course Called Scotland: Searching the Home of Golf for the Secret to Its Game book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski

9. 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

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last by Wright Thompson

10. Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

By: Wright Thompson

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller! “A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand… read more

Similar categories in Wright Thompson's Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"What became clear in Michigan was that Julian and Sissy have become the fully realized version of themselves through success. That's actually rare. I profile famous and successful athletes for a livi…"

-Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

Cover of So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game by Rick Reilly

11. So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game

By: Rick Reilly

4.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trade… read more

Similar categories in Rick Reilly's So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back by Ben Crenshaw

12. A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

By: Ben Crenshaw

3.71

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

"I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about… read more

Similar categories in Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back book and Ben Crenshaw's A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

10 must-read nonfiction books like A Feel for the Game: To Brookline and Back by Ben Crenshaw

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The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf

Mark Frost

4.43

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Beyond the Boys of Summer

Roger Kahn

3.87

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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

Jonathan Eig

3.70

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Moneyball

Michael Lewis

4.26

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The Greatest Game Ever Played

Mark Frost

4.50

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Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

Bob Rotella

4.36

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The Big Miss: My Years Coaching Tiger Woods

Hank Haney

3.70

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Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

Alan Shipnuck

4.06

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