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Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich
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Include books by the same authorA Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
John Feinstein · 324 pages
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty · 384 pages
Wooden: A Coach's Life
Seth Davis · 607 pages
A provocative assessment of legendary UCLA coach John Wooden by the best-selling author of When March Went Mad draws on hundreds of interviews from all periods of his career to offer insight into his driving ambition, divided relationships and hard-won lessons.
Michael Jordan: The Life
Roland Lazenby · 708 pages
Traces the life of one of the most legendary basketball players in the history of the sport, drawing upon interviews with Jordan's friends, family, and teammates, and following his career from college to the NBA.
Rebound: The Odyssey of Michael Jordan
Bob Greene · 288 pages
Michael Jordan is considered the pre-eminent basketball player in the world. He is celebrated for his playing, for his lifestyle, for what he gets paid, and every move he makes is news. This is his story.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
Duncan Hamilton · 256 pages
Look Duncan, you're a journalist. One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the drink, and the crumbling of Brian Clough's heady twenty years as manager of Nottingham F
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis · 345 pages
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong
Juliet Macur · 480 pages
Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World's Most Popular Sport
Simon Kuper · 312 pages
"Simon Kuper's New York Times bestseller Soccernomics pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous empirical analysis and incisive-and witty- commentary. Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the world's most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men. Soccer Men goes behind the scenes with soccer's greatest players and coa
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown · 416 pages
Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing f
The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn · 445 pages
"A ... narrative of growing up within shouting distance of Ebbets Field, working for the Herald Tribune in the Jackie Robinson years ... and what's happened to everybody since."
Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre
Jeff Pearlman · 464 pages
"Gunslinger tells Brett Favres story for the first time, drawing on more than five hundred interviews, including many from the people closest to Favre. Jeff Pearlman charts an unparalleled journey from his rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi to a car accident that nearly took his life. Favre clawed back, getting d
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
Joe Posnanski · 276 pages
Documents the author's cross-country travels at the side of Negro Leagues champion Buck O'Neil, a journey during which the pair sought to recapture their love of the game, remembered O'Neil's history-making career, and explored the numerous challenges that the sport has overcome.
The Horse God Built
Lawrence Scanlan · 304 pages
In The Horse God Built Lawrence Scanlan gives the reader a groom's-eye view of the most exciting time in racing history. But more than anything else, it is a moving portrait of the powerful bond between human and horse.
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand · 453 pages
Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
Pre!
Tom Jordan · 168 pages
For five years, no American runner could beat him at any distance over a mile. But at the age of 24, with his best years still ahead, long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine finally lost. Driving alone at night after a party, Prefontaine crashed his sports car, putting a tragic, shocking end to the life and career of one of the most influential, accomplished runners of our time. From his humble ori
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Steve Sheinkin · 288 pages
An astonishing underdog sports story and more. It's an unflinching look at the US government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they
Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
Guillem Balague
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
David Edmonds, John Eidinow · 368 pages
Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King: The Turbulent Life of Eric Cantona
Philippe Auclair · 288 pages
Many have tried to persuade Eric Cantona to write his autobiography. He never will. Philippe Auclair has interviewed every key player in Cantona's life, from his family and first coach to his wife Isabelle, to produce a biography that reveals the heart and inner thoughts of this most extraordinary character.
Namath: a Biography
Mark Kriegel · 512 pages
Discusses the football star's upbringing as the son of a Hungarian immigrant in the steel country of Pennsylvania, his achievements at the University of Alabama, his career with the New York Jets, and his legendary status.
Football - Bloody Hell!: The Biography of Alex Ferguson
Patrick Barclay