Biography: sport books

With unflinching candor, Cain reveals jockey Laffit Pincay's greatest triumphs and fiercest struggles: the famed...  Read More >>

James Hunt was a towering personality with a commanding presence, a glamorous public figure who brought Formula...  Read More >>

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, the author began running to keep fit. A year later,...  Read More >>

Dickinson profiles falconer Steve Chindgren, a man willing to make extreme sacrifices to continue practicing the...  Read More >>

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'Jaw-dropping reading... whether you like snooker or not, it's as good a ""wild man"" story as you're likely to...  Read More >>

The St Louis Cardinals were contenders in 1957 and '59, two of Hal Smith's best years as a Major League player....  Read More >>

Diligent, detailed, and overpowering. This is not a book of conjecture: It s one of bootstrap journalism. </p> <em>New...  Read More >>

The first Japanese American jockey, Kokomo Joe burst like a comet on the American horse-racing scene in the summer...  Read More >>

A biography of Branch Rickey, the man who signed Jackie Robinson, and invented baseball's farm system.  Read More >>

The cult SkySports Soccer Saturday anchorman delivers a volley of entertaining and informative anecdotes about life...  Read More >>

Covers the story of John Force and his rise from a penniless racer to the star of NHRA. Following Force's life and...  Read More >>

More than 30 years after his death, Mark Donohue's name still stands for the ultimate in speed and sophistication...  Read More >>

To many New Yorkers who came of age in the 1980s as Mets fans, Keith Hernandez is the Mets. Two decades after his...  Read More >>

In this revealing look at the sport of golf, popular caddie Greg ""Piddler"" Martin compiles some of the wildest...  Read More >>

A fascinating coming of age story about Marlin fishing and hunting while growing up with legendary Hemingway type...  Read More >>

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Bareknuckle fighter Thomas Cribb (1781-1848) was a sporting legend whose exploits still feature in thousands of...  Read More >>

"In 1965, against impossible odds, a black Durham, North Carolina high school basketball team fights bigotry and...  Read More >>

Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi, one of the world's two leading chess players and five times candidate for the World Championship,...  Read More >>

As a massive work of reference to Fischer's chess science and technique, and as a tribute to the delights of Fischer's...  Read More >>

This book celebrates the history and great achievements of those who participated in the great Public High League,...  Read More >>

A collection of the twenty players the author has idolised in front of the television, marvelled at from the stands,...  Read More >>