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• Top 70 Sports Books of All Time - According to Michael Levin
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Top 70 Sports Books of All Time - According to Michael Levin
1. Armstrong, Lance, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - autobiography of the greatest cyclist of all time
2. Auerbach, Red, Let Me Tell You a Story - looking back on a life in basketball
3. Bannister, Roger, The Four Minute Mile - an autobiographical account by the first runner to break the seemingly impossible barrier
4. Bellos, Alex, Futebol: Soccer: The Brazilian Way - the sport and the sociology of soccer in Brazil
5. Benedict, Jeff, and Yaeger, Don, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL - the violence off the field
6. Berger, Phil, Blood Season: Mike Tyson and the World of Boxing - a biography of the greatest heavyweight of his time
7. Bingham, Howard L., and Wallace, Max, Muhammed Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. The United States of America - Ali's struggle to achieve conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War
8. Bird, Larry, Drive - the Celtic star's autobiography
9. Bissinger, H.G., Friday Night Lights - the book about Texas high school football that launched the movie and TV show
10. Blount, Roy, Jr., About Three Bricks Shy of a Load - an uproarious account of the early 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers
11. Bouton, Jim, Ball Four - the seminal modern baseball book, the scandalous and hysterically funny diary of his season with the 1969 Seattle Pilot
12. Bowden, Mark, Bringing the Heat -- the Philadelphia Eagles' tumultuous 1992 season
13. Bryant, Howard, Juicing the Game - The Steroid Era in Baseball
14. Buford, Bill, Among the Thugs - a journey into the dark heart of English soccer
15. Callahan, Tom, In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Golf with Tiger Woods - the best book of the many "by" and about Tiger
16. Canseco, Jose, Juiced - the inside story of steroids in baseball, by one who was there
17. Coyle, Daniel, Lance Armstrong's War - inside his Tour de France victories and struggles with accusers
18. Cox, Lynne, Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer - inspiring memoirs of a remarkable woman swimmer
19. Crasnick, Jerry, License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent - the hypercompetitive world of sports agentry
20. Eisen, Rich, Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe - the face and voice of the NFL Network takes you behind the scenes
21. Fainaru-Wada, Mark, and Williams, Lance Game of Shadows - the Barry Bonds scandal, by the two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who broke the story of BALCO
22. Feinstein, John, A Season on the Brink - a year with Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight (and the progenitor of the "season of unlimited access" books)
23. Fitzpatrick, Frank, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Kentucky, Texas Western, and the Game That Changed American Sports - the first NCAA basketball finals with an all-black starting five
24. Freedman, Lew, Father of the Iditarod: The Joe Redington Story - an introduction to the great Alaskan dogsled race
25. Galloway, Jeff, Marathon - You Can Do It! - marathoning made possible with America's greatest running coach
26. Gilbert, Brad and Jamison, Steve, Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master - how to succeed at tennis...or any other competitive activity
27. Golenbock, Peter, Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes: The Definitive Oral History of America's Team - the Dallas Cowboys, in their own words
28. Hagstrom, Robert G., The NASCAR Way: The Business that Drives the Sport - from moonshiners to a vast industry
29. Hauser, Thomas, Ali - the best biography of "The Greatest"
30. Helyar, John, the Lords of the Realm - Baseball's owners and management structure
31. Hillenbrand, Laura, Seabiscuit: An American Legend - the book is even better than the movie
32. Hogan, Ben, Five Lessons: the Modern Fundamentals of Golf
33. Howard, Johnette, The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship - the golden age of women's tennis
34. James, Bill, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, the man who changed the way we viewÑand measureÑbaseball performance
35. Jackson, Phil, Sacred Hoops - the Michael Jordan years with the Bulls and a journey into spirituality and sports
36. Kahn, Roger, The Boys of Summer - a nostalgic look back at the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers and the first important "where are they now?" sports books
37. Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air - the most deadly Everest expedition ever
38. Lewis, Michael, Moneyball - the most influential baseball book in years, detailing the Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's statistics-based approach to assembling a team
39. Liebling, A.J., The Sweet Science - the definitive portrait of American boxing in the 1940s and 1950s by one of America's greatest literary stylists
40. Little, John R., The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee - the ultimate martial artist's approach to combat and life
41. Lombardi, Vince, Run to Daylight - strategy and philosophy of football from the legendary coach
42. Macgregor, Jeff, Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America with NASCAR- a reporter and his wife spend a year attending NASCAR
43. Madden, John, with Anderson, John, Hey, Wait A Minute! I Wrote a Book! -- America's number one football analyst lets it all hang out
44. Maraniss, David, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi - a biography of the great coach
45. Mc, Phee, A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton - a thinking man's approach to college basketball
46. Mitchell, Jerry, The Amazing Mets - the Casey Stengel years with the new franchise in 1962 and 1963
47. Mnookin, Seth, Feeding the Monster - How the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series
48. Namath, Joe, I Can't Wait For Tomorrow Because I Get Better Looking Every Day - the Jets quarterback who forced the AFL/NFL merger tells all
49. Neyer, Rob, Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups - the exhaustive (but never exhausting) compendium of baseball knowledge and opinion
50. Osborne, Tom, Faith in the Game, Lessons on Football, Work, and Life - the Nebraska football coach's manual on character
51. Pearlman, Jeff, The Bad Guys Won! -- the 1986 Mets, a highly revealing portrait of a baseball dynasty that could have been
52. Penick, Harvey, Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings From a Lifetime of Golf - the great teacher tells all
53. Plaschke, Bill, I Live For This! -- A bittersweet portrait of Dodger manager and baseball ambassador Tommy Lasorda
54. Plimpton, George, Paper Lion - a writer actually joins the Detroit Lions back in the 1960s in training camp and appears in NFL games
55. Price, Christopher, The Blueprint: How the New England Patriots Beat the System to Create the Last Great NFL Superpower - the real Bill Belicheck
56. Riley, Pat, The Winner Within - the first sports/business crossover book
57. Ritter, Lawrence S., The Glory of Their Times: The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It - an economist hits the road in the 1960s to interview baseball players from the 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s
58. Sampson, Curt, The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia - the history and personalities behind the most important tournament in golf
59. Sayers, Gayle, I Am Third, a great football autobiography and the inspiration for Brian's Song
60. Scanlan, Lawrence, The Horse God Built: The Untold Story of Secretariat, the World's Greatest Racehorse - the 1972 Triple Crown winner
61. Smith, Sam, The Jordan Rules - Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
62. St. John, Warren, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania - Alabama football
63. Steinberg, Leigh, Winning with Integrity: Getting What You're Worth Without Selling Your Soul -- the top sports agent shows how deals really get done, in an ethical manner
64. Taylor, John, The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball - when the Celtics ruled the world
65. Wertheim, L. Jon, Running the Table - the world of pool hustling, from the perspective of Kid Delicious, a young Falstaff with a cue stick
66. Winfield, Dave, Dropping the Ball - How baseball can restore its position as the national pastime
67. Wooden, John, Wooden - the autobiography of the most influential coach in American sports
68. Yates, Brock, Cannonball! - The original cross-country stealth race, a classic from the 70s
69. Yost, Mark, and Williams, Brian, The 200-MPH Billboard: The Inside Story of How Big Money Changed NASCAR -- inside NASCAR's business and marketing success
70. Zimmerman, Paul and Schaap, Dick, The Year the Mets Lost Last Place - the improbable story of the 1969 Amazin' Mets
• Meet Michael Levin
• Five Steps To Becoming a Published Author
• I need a book, but I've got no time!!!
• Can I hire Michael to write and publish my book?
• When You're The Author, You're The Authority (.pdf)
• For samples of Michael's work, click here (.pdf)
• Click here for books by Michael Levin
• Top 70 Sports Books of All Time - According to Michael Levin
• Michael Levin's Racing History