Here are my favorite books involving sports or sports-related character:
- I Am Third by Gale Sayers
- The Bogey Man by George Plimpton
- The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Paper Lion by George Plimpton
- My Losing Season by Pat Conroy
- Moneyball by Michael Lewis
- Fever Pitch by Nick Hornsby
- On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- When March Went Mad: The Game that Transformed Basketball by Seth Davis
- Hogan by Curt Sampson
- American Hoops, U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing by Carson Cunnigham
- The Perfect Mile by Neal Bascomb
- Billy Martin: Baseball’s Flawed Genius by Bill Pennington
