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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 18:56:58 GMT -5
What are some of the best non-fiction sports and sports related books that you've read?
I'm always looking for new things to read and am currently searching for books on the early days of professional ice hockey, so any recommendations would be appreciated in that regard.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2017 21:59:03 GMT -5
Not sure about hockey, but 2 I could recommend are Seabiscuit, and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Nov 9, 2017 14:10:36 GMT -5
The Last Headbangers, NFL Unplugged, and Slow Getting Up. All three are about the NFL.
While fictional, I can't recommend enough North Dallas Forty.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 10:20:09 GMT -5
"Loose Balls", Terry Pluto. An oral history of the 9-year run of the ABA. (Which just celebrated its 50th anniversary.)
"Big Hair & Plastic Grass", Dan Epstein. Baseball intertwined with pop culture dedicated to the 1970s. (He also has a book all about 1976, "Stars and Strikes".)
"The National Forgotten League", Dan Daly. Entertaining stories and observations from pro football's first 50 years.
(Sorry it isn't hockey. Although there is a book about the WHL I've been meaning to get.)
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Nov 10, 2017 17:07:20 GMT -5
There is a book on the St. Louis Blues that just came out that I am looking to get and read. It's the time line book on how the team came into the NHL and the up and down of the team over the years all the way to last season. It should be a good one. I'm sure there is other teams that have something like it but not sure if there is one just on the NHL itself.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Nov 10, 2017 17:42:53 GMT -5
Faithful by Stephen King and Stewert O'Nan.
It is two authors who decided to chronicle every Red Sox game of the entire season in exchanges of notes with each other (they even did notes on Spring Training). It just so happened that when they did all of this, it was the year the Red Sox finally broke the curse.
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Post by Perd on Nov 11, 2017 0:52:02 GMT -5
Money all is a great read.
And although it’s not strictly a sports book, the Bronx is Burning is fantastic.
I’d also recommend Seabiscuit.
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Post by Andy Martin on Nov 11, 2017 12:57:30 GMT -5
"My View From The Corner" by Angelo Dundee and Bert Sugar.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2017 9:49:54 GMT -5
"Up, Up & Away", Jonah Keri.
Pretty much the history of the Montreal Expos, from when the city got the '67 World's Fair, turned that into applying for an MLB team...and everything since then was one clustermess after another.
(Pretty topical considering I was just reading through the CBC about whether Montreal is tearing down Olympic Stadium or trying to rehabilitate it...again.)
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