Recommended+Further+Reading


 * Literature of Sport Mr. Greenhill **

The Sports Illustrated List of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time
 * Recommended Further Reading **

Listed below are great books in addition to the ones in //Sports// //Illustrated//’s Top 100. If you want to know more about each one, just ask me. There are many, many more. Also, great new ones are coming out every year. :)

Baseball
// Ted Williams, // Leigh Montville // The Big Bam //, Leigh Montville // Hitter, // Ed Linn // Cobb //, Al Stump // Stolen Season, // David Lamb = The Catcher Was a Spy, Nicholas Dawidoff = // The Curse of the Bambino, // Dan Shaughnessy // At Fenway: Dispatches from Red Sox Nation, // Dan Shaughnessy // Reversing the Curse //, Dan Shaughnessy // October 1964, // David Halberstam // Summer of ’49, // David Halberstam // The Teammates, // David Halberstam // Memories of Summer, // Roger Kahn // The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, // Robert Whiting // You Gotta Have Wa, // Robert Whiting // The Meaning of Ichiro, // Robert Whiting // The Head Game, // Roger Kahn // Pastime, // Jules Tygiel // The Pitch That Killed, // Mike Sowell // Matty, // Ray Robinson // The Iron Horse //, Ray Robinson // The Road to Cooperstown, // Tom Stanton // The Final Season, // Tom Stanton // How Life Imitates the World Series, // Thomas Boswell // Why Time Begins on Opening Day, // Thomas Boswell // The Heart of the Order, // Thomas Boswell // Cracking the Show, // Thomas Boswell // The Summer Game, // Roger Angell // Five Seasons, // Roger Angell

//Once More Around the Park,// Roger Angell // Season Ticket, // Roger Angell // Game Time, // Roger Angell // Late Innings, // Roger Angell // Moneyball, // Michael Lewis // Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life //, Michael Lewis // Willie’s Time, // Charles Einstein // The Last Hero, // David Faulkner // Nine Sides of the Diamond, // David Faulkner // The Last Yankee //, David Faulkner // The Jackie Robinson Reader //, David Faulkner // Hustle, // Mike Sokolove // Collision at Home Plate, // James Reston, Jr. //Men at Work//, George Will // Bunts, // George Will // Bums, // Peter Golenbock // Wrigleyville, // Peter Golenbock // The Spirit of St. Louis, // Peter Golenbock // Amazin’, // Peter Golenbock // Fenway, // Peter Golenbock // Wild, High, and Tight //, Peter Golenbock // George //, Peter Golenbock // Jackie Robinson //, Arnold Rampersad // The Power and the Darkness //, Mark Ribowsky // Don’t Look Back //, Mark Ribowsky // Ty Cobb //, Charles Alexander // John McGraw //, Charles Alexander // Stengel //, Robert Creamer // Koufax //, Jane Leavy // The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood //, Jane Leavy // 3 Nights in August //, Buzz Bissinger // Babe Ruth: Launching the // Legend, Jim Reisler // Juicing the Game //, Howard Bryant // Shut Out //, Howard Bryant // The Last Hero // : //A Life of Henry Aaron//, Howard Bryant // Game of Shadows //, Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams // Feeding the Monster //, Seth Mnookin // The Soul of Baseball //, Joe Posnanski // Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning //, Jonathan Mahler //The Gashouse Gang//, John Heidenry //Little League, Big Dreams//, Charles Euchner //Living on the Black//, John Feinstein //Cooperstown Confidential//, Zev Chafets //Munson//, Marty Appel //Satchel//, Larry Tye // American Icon //, Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O'Keeffe, and Christian Red // Alexander Cartwright //, Monica Nucciarone and John Thorn //Love Me, Hate Me//, Jeff Pearlman //The Rocket That Fell to Earth//, Jeff Pearlman //[|Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend]//, by [|Jim Reisler] //56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports//, Kostya Kennedy //Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella//, Neil Lanctot //Stan Musial//, George Vecsey

// A Good Walk Spoiled, // John Feinstein
 * __Golf__**

// The Majors: In Pursuit of Golf’s Holy Grail, // John Feinstein

// Golf Dream //, John Updike

__Surfing__
// Eddie Would Go, // Stuart Holmes Coleman // [|Fierce Heart: The Story of Makaha and the Soul of Hawaiian Surfing] //, Stuart Holmes Coleman // Caught Inside, // Daniel Duane // West of Jesus //, Steven Kotler //Stealing the Wave//, Andy Martin //On a Wave//, Thad Ziolkowski //All for a Few Perfect Waves//, David Remsin // [|Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering] //, Amy Waeschle //Sweetness and Blood//, Michael Scott Moore

__ Football __
// Season of Life, // Jeffrey Marx // A Civil War, // John Feinstein // Namath, // Mark Kriegel // When the Grass Was Real, // Bob Carroll // When the Colts Belonged to Baltimore //, William Gildea // Papa Bear //, Jeff Davis // Rozelle //, Jeff Davis // America //// ’s Game, // Jeff Davis // Johnny Unitas, // Lou Sahadi // Johnny U //, Tom Callahan // State of Grace //, Robert Timberg // The Right Kind of Heroes //, Kevin Horrigan // [|America's Game,] // Michael Maccambridge // The Real All Americans //, Sally Jenkins //Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero//, by Mike Freeman //All-American: The Rise and Fall of Jim Thorpe//, by Bill Crawford //It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium//, by John Ed Bradley //The Best Game Ever//, Mark Bowden //Passing Game//, Greenberg //Paul Brown//, O’Toole //War As They Knew It//, Rosenberg //Breaker Boys//, Fleming //The Galloping Ghost//, Poole //Paul Brown//, Andrew O'Toole

__ Tennis __
// The Match //, Bruce Schoenfeld // Strokes of Genius //, L. Jon Wertheim // A Terrible Splendor //, Marshall Jon Fisher // High Strung //, Stephen Tignor

__ Basketball __
= //Counting Coup//, Larry Colton = = //Sacred Hoops//, Phil Jackson = // The Last Amateurs, // John Feinstein // A March to Madness, // John Feinstein // A Season Inside, // John Feinstein // The Punch //, John Feinstein // Last Dance //, John Feinstein // Wooden, // John Wooden // John Wooden: An American Treasure, // Steve Bisheff // My Personal Best, // John Wooden // A Game Plan for Life //, John Wooden = //Let Me Tell You a Story//, Red Auerbach and John Feinstein = = //Wilt: Larger Than Life//, Robert Allen Cherry = // The Jordan Rules, // Sam Smith // Second Coming, // Sam Smith // The Smart Take from the Strong, // Pete Carril // Raw Recruits //, Alexander Wolff // Shoot Out the Lights //, Bob Spitz // [|The Rivalry : Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball] //, John Taylor // [|Wilt, 1962 : The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era] //, Gary M. Pomerantz // [|Cousy : His Life, Career, and the Birth of Big-Time Basketball], // Bill Reynolds // Operation Yao Ming //, Brook Larmer // Pistol //, Mark Kriegel // Maravich //, Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill //Tip-Off//, Filip Bondy

//Playing the Enemy//, John Carlin
 * __Rugby__**

__ Olympics in general __
// The Naked Olympics, // Tony Perrottet // Hitler’s Games //, Duff Hart-Davis //Rome// //1960//, David Maraniss

__ Boxing __
// King of the World, // David Remnick // Cinderella Man //, Jeremy Schaap // Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling and a World on the Brink //, David Margolick // Ghosts of Manila //, Mark Kram //On Boxing//, by Joyce Carol Oates //The Fight of the Century//, Michael Arkush //Unforgivable Blackness//, Geoffrey Ward

__ Running __
// The Perfect Mile, // Neal Bascomb // Pre, // Tom Jordan // Running with the Buffaloes //, Chris Lear // Triumph //, Jeremy Schaap // Bowerman and the Men of Oregon //, Kenny Moore //The Last Protest: Lee Evans in Mexico City//, by Frank Murphy //The Perfect Distance: Coe and Ovett//, by Pat Butcher //What I Talk About When I Talk About Running//, Haruki Murakami //Born to Run//, Christopher McDougall //Unbroken//, Lauren Hillenbrand

__ Boxing and Running combined __
// Heroes Without a Country: America’s Betrayal of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens //, Donald McRae

__ College Sports in general __
// Beer and Circus, // Murray Sperber

// From Lance to Landis //, David Walsh //Seven Deadly Sins//, David Walsh //Road to Valor//, Aili and Andres McConnon // [|Major: A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World's Fastest Human Being] //, Todd Balf
 * __ Cycling __**

__ Soccer __
// Dynamo, // Andy Dougan // How Soccer Explains the World //, Franklin Foer // Futebol //, Alex Bellos // A Season With Verona //, Tim Parks // The Game of Their Lives //, Jeffrey Douglas // Once in a Lifetime //, Gavin Newsham // The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup //, Matt Weiland & Sean Wiley ed. // Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football //, David Winner // The Glory Game //, Hunter Davies //Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer//, by John Foot // Ajax ////, the Dutch, the War // , Simon Kuper // Football Against the Enemy //, Simon Kuper // The Beckham Experiment //, Grant Wahl // However Tall the Mountain //, Awista Ayub // The Damned United //, David Peace // Tor! The Story of German Football //, Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger // Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics //, Jonathan Wilson //[|Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football] //,[|Jonathan Wilson] // Sunderland, Jonathan Wilson // // Chasing the Game: America and the Chase for the World Cup //, Filip Bondy // Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France //, Laurent Dubois // Soccernomics //, Stefan Szymanski // [|Barca: A People's Passion] //, [|Jimmy Burns] //[|Morbo]//, [|Phil Ball] //El Macca//, Steve McManaman and Sarah Edworthy //Trautmann's Journey//, Catrine Clay //A Life Too Short//, Ronald Reng //The Far Corner//, Harry Pearson //When Friday Comes//, James Montague

__ Rowing __
// The Amateurs, // David Halberstam // The Wonder Crew //, Susan Saint Sing


 * __ Hockey __**

// The Boys of Winter //, Wayne Coffey

__ Anthologies __
// Fifty Years of Great Writing (Sports Illustrated) // = The Best American Sportswriting of the Century =

// Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves //, Don Johnson
 * __ Poetry Anthology __**


 * __ Various Sports combined __**

// The Games Do Count //, Brian Kilmeade //Everything They Had//, David Halberstam //The Sports Gene//, David Epstein


 * __ Race in Sports __**

// Taboo: // // [|Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It] //, Jon Entine // Necessities //, Phillip M. Hoose // Darwin //// ’s Athletes: //// [|How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race], // John Hoberman // Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete //, Douglas Hartmann // Forty Million Dollar Slaves //, William Rhoden

// Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine //, David Edmonds and John Eidinow
 * __ Chess __**


 * __ Wrestling __**

// Four Days to Glory //, Mark Kriedler