Jack Dawkins Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Whats your Favourite sports books? Mine are Barca by Jimmy Burns I would recommend this book to anyone it is superb,Fifty years of Hurt by Ged Clarke best book I've read about supporting Newcastle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I think I have only read one bok which could be classed as a sports book & that was Shoeless Joe Jackson come to Iowa, which was what the movie Field of Dreams was based on. I read the book after seeing the movie & there were some major differences, as one would expect, but I loved both. Shoeless Joe goes into a lot more detail (obviously) about the White Sox & the Black Sox Scandal. All in all, a great book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, I'd have to say What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami as it's the only sports book I've ever read (with the exception of one or two books about Formula 1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I think I have only read one bok which could be classed as a sports book & that was Shoeless Joe Jackson come to Iowa, which was what the movie Field of Dreams was based on. I read the book after seeing the movie & there were some major differences, as one would expect, but I loved both. Shoeless Joe goes into a lot more detail (obviously) about the White Sox & the Black Sox Scandal. All in all, a great book! That sounds like a fashinating read, I'll have to look it up! I've been meaning to get more into baseball, as given my love of sports statistics that should be my kind of game. *laughs* But I've postponed that until/if I move back to States... It's really hard to get into the game in Europe. I haven't really read that many sports books. Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike is wonderful, though. If asked about movies, you cannot top Slap Shot. It's THE sports movie of all times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany725 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I'm not kidding when I write this.. It was literally about 2 days ago that I said to myself: "Okay.. there are just two types of books I CANNOT read. War books, and sports books." There are some war stories in "Q&A," which I was reading at the time and my eye just glaaazzee over.. same w/sports stories. I DID read John Grisham's "Playing for Pizza" one day though.. all about football in Parma, Italy. I only made it through it because it talked about Italy and its restaurants and people more than it talked about football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, I'd have to say What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami as it's the only sports book I've ever read (with the exception of one or two books about Formula 1). That's actually a pretty good book. Although quite weird, too. Otherwise I'd suggest Fever Pitch, of course. And I read a really fascinating book about doping in cycling called Breaking The Chain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 That sounds like a fashinating read, I'll have to look it up! I've been meaning to get more into baseball, as given my love of sports statistics that should be my kind of game. *laughs* But I've postponed that until/if I move back to States... It's really hard to get into the game in Europe. I haven't really read that many sports books. Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike is wonderful, though. If asked about movies, you cannot top Slap Shot. It's THE sports movie of all times! ii, I think that you'd like it. It's one that I read in High school for a project & just loved. I've been meaning to re-read it myself, but have yet to get around to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ii Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 ii, I think that you'd like it. It's one that I read in High school for a project & just loved. I've been meaning to re-read it myself, but have yet to get around to it. *writes the name down in her notebook* I'll look around. (like I haven't enough books to read as it is!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceinwenn Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Happy reading when you get to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Otherwise I'd suggest Fever Pitch, of course. This may sound odd, but I tend to think about Fever Pitch as being more about obsession than football - you could easily replace football with a number of other subjects and tell the same story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I've probably read more sports books than an intelligent human being should admit to, but almost none of them has made an impression on me. The only ones I'd recommend are Beyond A Boundary by C L J James, and The Soccer Syndrome by John Moynihan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Oh yes. How the hell could I have forgotten Beyond A Boundary. Probably the best sports book ever written. Also possibly the best book about race and politics too. Genuinely brilliant. And yes, Raven, Fever Pitch is really about obsession. But I rememer when I first read it, in the early 90s, it really touched a nerve with me as a footy fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 The Soccer Goalkeeping Handbook by Alex Welsh, Kung Fu , History Philosophy and Technique By David Chow, and many more that would bore many people to tears unless they were interested in a particular sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Butter Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I've probably read more sports books than an intelligent human being should admit to, but almost none of them has made an impression on me. The only ones I'd recommend are Beyond A Boundary by C L J James, and The Soccer Syndrome by John Moynihan. Ooops! If anyone's moved by my recommedation to buy it (which is probably unlikely), it's by C L R James, by the way. My fingers apologise .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Ooops! If anyone's moved by my recommedation to buy it (which is probably unlikely), it's by C L R James, by the way. My fingers apologise .... The should be moved to buy it. But probably only if they're interested in politics and cricket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Landsman Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I am yet to read a good sports book, but I plan on getting The Fight by Norman Mailer and The Sweet Science by A. J. Liebling for christmas, as I have a massive interest in boxing; and it is a sport that can make for interesting literature in my eyes. Being a boxing journalist is definitely my dream career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaustoMerckx Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 One more kilometre and we're in the showers by Tim Hilton is a great cycling book, more about the eccentricities of amateur enthusiasts than normal which makes for a different read. Everest by Sir Chris Bonington is a good book about . . . thats right you guessed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Blessed - George Best is one of my favourite and also Keane - Roy Keane, that book got him into a spot of bother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adonis Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 It's not my favourite, but I recently read 'The Blinder' by Barry Hines (the guy who wrote Kes) and it was really good. It's about an up and coming footballer in a mining town in the 60s. Apart from being a good story, the contrast betweem football then and now is very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Interesting topic but if you allow me i would like to enlarge to books using the sport as a dramatic tool and body as a literary matter. - American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis for fitness delirium - 3 Men in a boat, Jerome K Jerome for rowing misadventures - The Game, Jack London for his depicture boxing masculinity - Confessions of a mask, Yukio Mishima for bodybuilding homoeroticism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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