A Damn Near Perfect Game by Joe Kelly
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A Major League baseball star writes a book about revamping Major League baseball.
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Lost in the Game by Thomas Beller
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Former pickup player and retired professor shares his behind-the-scenes views of the NBA.
Read MoreThe Master by Christopher Clarey
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A new biography of the great tennis player Roger Federer.
Read MoreUnbeaten by Mike Stanton
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A sterling, heroic, thoroughly researched account of the career of Rocky Marciano.
Read MoreWhy Baseball Matters by Susan Jacoby
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The real title of Why Baseball Matters might well be How Baseball Survives.
Read MoreTom Yawkey: Patriarch of the Boston Red Sox by Bill Nowlin
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A wonky, magnificent work of baseball writing that will be necessary reading for all Red Sox fans.
Read MoreHigher Calling: Cycling's Obsession with Mountains by Max Leonard
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Any book that seeks to sing the praises of manifestly irrational behavior must strap on its dancing shoes pretty much from Page 1 and just keep tappa-tappa-tapping for all its worth. Anything less, any slowing of the tempo to the pace where normal life is lived, will result in readers blinking, holding the book at arm's length, and saying, “This is not my beautiful wife.”
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