8 must-read nonfiction books like Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL by Jack Cavanaugh

Cover of Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL by Jack Cavanaugh

Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL

By: Jack Cavanaugh

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, when basketball’s Boston Celtics were piecing together a run…

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Cover of The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy

1. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

By: Jane Leavy

4.15

Format: None pages,

The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax returns with the biography of on… read more

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2. Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

By: Larry Tye

3.46

Format: None pages,

He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at las… read more

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3. The Sportswriter

By: Richard Ford

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely … read more

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4. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

5. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • football
Cover of Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics by Dan Shaughnessy

6. Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics

By: Dan Shaughnessy

4.22

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the … read more

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Cover of The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History by Dana O'Neil

7. The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

By: Dana O'Neil

4.29

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in colleg… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene by Timothy Beal

8. When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene

By: Timothy Beal

4.06

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

With faith, hope, and compassion, acclaimed religion scholar Timothy Beal shows us how to navigate … read more

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Cover of '63: The Story of The 1963 World Champion Chicago Bears: A Great NFL Team Time Has Forgotten (Great teams Time has forgotten) by Gary Youmans

9. '63: The Story of The 1963 World Champion Chicago Bears: A Great NFL Team Time Has Forgotten (Great teams Time has forgotten)

By: Gary Youmans

3.98

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

'63 will take you inside the huddle as the 1963 Chicago Bears challenge for the World Championship … read more

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Cover of The Uncrowned Champs: How the 1963 San Diego Chargers Would Have Won the Super Bowl by Dave Steidel

10. The Uncrowned Champs: How the 1963 San Diego Chargers Would Have Won the Super Bowl

By: Dave Steidel

3.86

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

Before the inception of the Super Bowl-football’s faceoff of the best teams to find out who is trul… read more

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Cover of Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty: Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era by Stanley Cohen

11. Yankees 1936–39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty: Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Birth of a New Era

By: Stanley Cohen

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

The Story of the Greatest Yankees Team—and Baseball Team—of All Time New York, 1936. Red Ruffing, … read more

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Cover of Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL by Jack Cavanaugh

12. Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL

By: Jack Cavanaugh

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, when basketball’s Boston Celtics were piecing together a run… read more

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Cover of The New York Yankees of the 1950s: Mantle, Stengel, Berra, and a Decade of Dominance by David Fischer

13. The New York Yankees of the 1950s: Mantle, Stengel, Berra, and a Decade of Dominance

By: David Fischer

3.87

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was … read more

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  • nonfiction

8 must-read sports books like Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL by Jack Cavanaugh

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Jane Leavy

4.15

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Jeff Pearlman

4.20

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Dan Shaughnessy

4.22

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Ian O'Connor

4.26

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Rich Cohen

3.90

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Leigh Montville

4.19

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