NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 9, 2009
"An ace of a tale about how one man found his game."
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2007
"Gripping, inspiring coverage of three powerful forces' unforgettable convergence: the sports version of The Perfect Storm."
Sports Illustrated staffer Anderson (
The All Americans, 2004, etc.) chronicles a 1912 game that proved a turning point not just for college football, but for the sport as a whole.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 3, 2008
"Not quite on par with Bringing the Heat (1994), among the best football books ever, but surely a delight for anyone interested in the history of the NFL."
Bowden (
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam, 2006, etc.) takes a sharp look at the 1958 National Football League championship game, which featured "the greatest concentration of football talent ever assembled for a single game."
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2010
"A landmark achievement in basketball journalism."
In his debut, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist embeds himself in the sleazy underbelly of grassroots basketball.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 18, 2009
"A feel-good story of youthful drive, great coaching and the value of unflagging communal support."
Turning his attention from horseracing (
To the Swift: Classic Triple Crown Horses and Their Race for Glory, 2008, etc.),
New York Times reporter Drape follows a high-school football dynasty.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 7, 2008
"Less groundbreaking than Paper Lion, but more perceptive and almost as entertaining."
Channeling George Plimpton, a sportswriter dons pads and becomes the first journalist in more than 40 years to take the field alongside an NFL team.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 1996
"The game, a narrow one-point victory for Army, provided a stunning climax to the season. It also supplies a stirring ending for this exceptional book."
Feinstein, author of the bestselling
A Good Walk Spoiled (1995), again delivers the goods, this time chronicling the 1995 season of the West Point and Annapolis football teams, culminating in their annual game.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"The book's precise focus enables troubling considerations of the role of race and class in America."
In his debut, journalist Merlino traces the lives of his integrated junior-high basketball team and what happened to the players when the games stopped.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 24, 2004
"Existentialism of the purest sort--that is, it includes laughter."
New York Times reporter St. John spends a season road tripping in an RV with the University of Alabama football fan club
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