 | A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £0.01 Sensationally good on a range of golf's characters. Really captures the trauma of standing over a critical putt
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 | The Glory Game: The New Edition of the British Football Classic (Mainstream sport) by Hunter Davies
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.10 Captures the whole dynamic of a football club, players and manager, in the 1970s
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 | Only a Game?: The Diary of a Professional Footballer by Eamon Dunphy
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.50 the best account of being a sportsman by an actual player. Earthy, funny, competitive, sad
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 | The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.01 A classic. Strong on tactics and on people. Like Brearley himself
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 | Rain Men: Madness of Cricket by Marcus Berkmann
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The best book on being a bad sportsman there is. Also great on the art of watching cricket on TV
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 | A Lot of Hard Yakka: Triumph and Torment - A County Cricketer's Life by Simon Hughes
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Hughes is both funny and accurate: how he turned from a promising talent to a deeply average player. Great anecdotes too about Botham, Greenidge, Brearley, Gatting...
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 | Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £0.01 Deserves its classic status. As much about being a man as it is being a fan. Remembers an Arsenal before Arsene Wenger put his flair in it.
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 | The Picador Book of Sportswriting
Buy used from: £0.01 Fabulous anthology of sports writing. From being a cheerleader at college to what it's like to step in to the ring with a heavyweight champion.
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 | The Fight (Penguin Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £0.99 Great characters, Ali, Foreman, Don King. Great writing. Great relationship between Ali and Mailer.
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 | Great Innings (Great Sporting Moments) by Peter Roebuck
Buy used from: £0.01 Completely under-rated. Roebuck uses different innings as a way of describing people, cultures and cricket. Uplifting.
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