Sports Journalism Books

Browse books about sports reporting and sportswriters, alongside collections of journalism that capture athletes, competitions, and the world around sport. The catalog below updates when a published book is assigned the Sports Journalism topic in Author Library.

Sports Journalism Book Catalog

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Sports Journalism bibliography
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Farewell To Sportby Paul Gallico1938 Description / Buy at Amazon
White Hopes and Other Tigersby John Lardner1951 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Tumult And The Shoutingby Grantland Rice1954 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Sweet Scienceby A. J. Liebling1956 Description / Buy at Amazon
No Cheering In The Press Boxby Jerome Holtzman1974 Description / Buy at Amazon
SportsWorldby Robert Lipsyte1975 Description / Buy at Amazon
Bleeding Between the Linesby Eliot Asinof1979 Description / Buy at Amazon
Sports of Our Timesby Dave Anderson1979 Description / Buy at Amazon
How Life Imitates the World Seriesby Thomas Boswell1982 Description / Buy at Amazon
McIlvanney On Boxingby Hugh McIlvanney1982 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Red Smith Readerby Red Smith1982 Description / Buy at Amazon
Writers’ Fighters and Other Sweet Scientistsby John Schulian1983 Description / Buy at Amazon
Foul Ball!by Alison Gordon1984 Description / Buy at Amazon
Why Time Begins on Opening Dayby Thomas Boswell1984 Description / Buy at Amazon
American Footballby Dan Jenkins1986 Description / Buy at Amazon
Diamond Classicsby Mike Shannon1989 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Heart of the Orderby Thomas Boswell1989 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best American Sports Writing 1991by David Halberstam1991 Description / Buy at Amazon
Games We Used to Playby Roger Kahn1992 Description / Buy at Amazon
Fighting Wordsby Harry Mullan1993 Description / Buy at Amazon
Reading Footballby Michael Oriard1993 Description / Buy at Amazon
Cracking the Showby Thomas Boswell1994 Description / Buy at Amazon
McIlvanney On Footballby Hugh McIlvanney1994 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best American Sports Writing of the Centuryby David Halberstam1994 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best American Sports Writing 1995by Dan Jenkins1995 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best American Sports Writing 1996by John Feinstein1996 Description / Buy at Amazon
Memories of Summerby Roger Kahn1997 Description / Buy at Amazon
Sports Illustratedby Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Steve Wulf1997 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Franchiseby Michael MacCambridge1997 Description / Buy at Amazon
King Footballby Michael Oriard2000 Description / Buy at Amazon
Baseballby Ron Smith, The Sporting News2001 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Good Stuffby Joe Posnanski2001 Description / Buy at Amazon
The View from Plutoby Terry Pluto2002 Description / Buy at Amazon
NBA Reader Tim Duncanby Scott Howard-Cooper2005 Description / Buy at Amazon
Slamthologyby John Lister2005 Description / Buy at Amazon
Twilight of the Long-ball Godsby John Schulian2005 Description / Buy at Amazon
Into My Ownby Roger Kahn2006 Description / Buy at Amazon
How I Helped Kill Kayfabeby Bob Ryder2007 Description / Buy at Amazon
Everything They Hadby David Halberstam2008 Description / Buy at Amazon
Get Her Off the Pitchby Lynn Truss2009 Description / Buy at Amazon
Jenkins at the Majorsby Dan Jenkins2009 Description / Buy at Amazon
Monday Morning Quarterbackby Peter King2009 Description / Buy at Amazon
One on Oneby John Feinstein2011 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best of Bicyclingby Christopher McDougall2011 Description / Buy at Amazon
Wayne Gretzky's Ghostby Roy MacGregor2011 Description / Buy at Amazon
Seven Deadly Sinsby David Walsh2012 Description / Buy at Amazon
When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Maleby Lisa Doris Alexander2012 Description / Buy at Amazon
His Ownselfby Dan Jenkins2014 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Best American Sports Writing 2014by Christopher McDougall2014 Description / Buy at Amazon
Baseballby Aaron Burch, Jensen Beach2015 Description / Buy at Amazon
Is Wrestling Fixed? I Didn't Know It Was Broken!by Bill Apter2015 Description / Buy at Amazon
String Theoryby David Foster Wallace2016 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Bittersweet Scienceby Carlo Rotella, Michael Ezra2017 Description / Buy at Amazon
Sports Makes You Type Fasterby Dan Jenkins2018 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Day Two Teams Diedby Carl Abbott, Roy Cavanagh2018 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Cost of These Dreamsby Wright Thompson2019 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Great Romanticby Duncan Hamilton2019 Description / Buy at Amazon
A Bird’s-Eye Viewby Paul Domowitch2020 Description / Buy at Amazon
Hockey's Hot Stoveby Al Strachan2020 Description / Buy at Amazon
Sidelinedby Julie DiCaro2021 Description / Buy at Amazon
Freezing Cold Takesby Fred Segal2022 Description / Buy at Amazon
The GAA Coveredby John Kelly2025 Description / Buy at Amazon
Elevenby Christian Ryan2026 Description / Buy at Amazon
Fanzineby Daniel Gray2026 Description / Buy at Amazon
Far from Lord’sby Richard Knott2026 Description / Buy at Amazon
It’s All About the Playersby Peter Gammons2026 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Gameby Peter King2026 Description / Buy at Amazon
The Lost Sportswriterby Vincent Hogan2026 Description / Buy at Amazon

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