The Best Sports Books Ever
H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a legendary book about high school football that lead to the release of a great movie and legendary television show. Friday Night Lights is the ageless record of the Permian Panthers of Odessa – the most dominating
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play by Kobe Bryant is a personal perspective on the great player’s life and career on the court as well his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game. In the wake of his retirement from professional b-ball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant chose to share
The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law is a ground-breaking book by one of baseball’s smartest writers. Daniel Kahneman’s iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League Baseball.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand is the story of one of horse racing’s most incredible horses and the men behind its success. Seabiscuit was maybe the most charging and celebrated horses in the sport’s history and the single most noteworthy newsmaker on earth in 1938, getting more incorporation
Matt and Nick Jackson, the Young Bucks, are one of the greatest professional wrestling tag teams of all-time with fans all over the world. The duo is especially notable because they got to this status and tremendous fame without ever going to work for WWE, the largest professional wrestling company
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig is a comprehensive look at the 1947 season when Jackie Robinson became the first black player to play Major League Baseball. It was a very important moment in baseball history and ultimately changed baseball forever. Author Jonathan Eig
LeBron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete by Brian Windhorst is the story of LeBron James’ transformation from a kid from Akron to a basketball star to the sports and business mogul we know today. James has proven himself as one of the greatest basketball players of all-time with multiple trips
A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex is a book by Chris Jericho that covers his rise from a young kid who loved wrestling in rock-and-roll to becoming one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the world. Chris Jericho is considered one of the fifty greatest wrestlers of all
The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik is a book about what teams will do to gain an edge in the post-Moneyball era. The time of noticing things that other teams don’t or better evaluating past performance is over. Developing players and making the most out of untapped
Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley is considered by many to be the best biography by a professional wrestler ever written. The book, released in 1999, covers Mick Foley’s entire wrestling career until the night he won the WWF Championship over The Rock.
