 | Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton
Buy new: £8.17 / Used from: £7.10 2007 winner; 'Superb portrait of the conflicted, contradictory man which doesn't dusk his uglier aspects' (FHM).
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 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.47 2006 winner and 'probably the finest book on the uniquely talented and horribly hounded black heavyweight champion' (The Observer).
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 | My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.98 2005 winner. 'Brilliantly recaptures a lost world' (The Guardian).
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 | Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Controversy by Peter Oborne
Buy new: £1.19 / Used from: £0.98 2004 winner: 'An inspirational story and one which never fails to move' (Michael Parkinson).
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 | Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football by Tom Bower
Buy used from: £0.01 2003 winner. 'A devastating book, an indictment of football that all fans should read and understand' (The Times).
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 | In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by Donald McRae
Buy used from: £1.00 2002 winner. 'For its honesty and insights into an amazing period of history, the book deserved to win the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award' (Tony Adams in the Observer Books of the Year).
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 | Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse by Laura Hillenbrand
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £0.01 2001 winner. The horseracing tale that was good enough for Hollywood.
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 | It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
Buy used from: £0.01 2000 winner. An inspirational story from cancer diagnosis to Tour de France triumph and fatherhood from a sporting legend.
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 | A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.00 1999 winner. 'Nothing less than the story of English culture' (Amazon.co.uk)
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 | Angry White Pyjamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger
Buy used from: £0.01 1998 winner. 'A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan' (Amazon.co.uk)
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 | A Lot of Hard Yakka: Triumph and Torment - A County Cricketer's Life by Simon Hughes
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 1997 winner. 'A brilliant, amusing and wrily self-depracating book, packed with hilarious and embarrassing anecdotes about some of the greatest cricketers of the last 20 years' (Amazon.co.uk)
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 | Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing by Donald McRae
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.24 1996 winner. A 'vivid personal journey through the intense and forbidding world of the professional fight game' (Amazon.co.uk)
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 | A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein
Buy used from: £1.22 1995 winner. 'Tells the story of an unusually turbulent year on the [US] PGA tour' (Amazon.co.uk)
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 | Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.20 1994 winner and an undoubted classic, Football Against the Enemy sheds a brilliant light on how nations and cultures filter their image of themselves through their football.
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 | Endless Winter: Inside Story of the Rugby Revolution by Steve Jones
Buy used from: £1.75 1993 winner. 'No better book has been written on a rugby tour than this' (allanmartin3, Amazon.co.uk reviewer)
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 | Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 1992 winner. The book that promoted football from hooliganism, Heysel and Hillsbrough to millionaire mansions and worldwide TV deals.
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 | Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.50 1991 winner. A biography of one of the most recognisable and respected sportmen on earth.
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 | Rough Ride by Paul Kimmage
Buy new: £3.70 / Used from: £3.25 1990 winner. Broke the silence surrounding the issue of drugs in the Tour de France and 'pierces the essence of the race more than any other [book]' (The Times). Now updated and republished.
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 | True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Daniel Topolski
Buy used from: £9.99 1989 winner. Americans eventually turn up to save class-ridden Brits, the perpetual plucky underdogs, from defeat. Like WWII, but with oars.
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