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Nonfiction · Sports

A Season on the Brink

John Feinstein
1986 · 368 pages

Feinstein spent the 1985-86 season inside coach Bob Knight's Indiana basketball program and printed all of it, the profanity and the fury and the players absorbing both. Sports reporters still envy that access.

★ 4.6
Nonfiction · Sports

The Boys of Summer

Roger Kahn
1972 · 474 pages

Two decades after covering the Brooklyn Dodgers for a newspaper, Kahn found the same men in middle age, one paralyzed. What began as a baseball book becomes an elegy for everyone's youth.

★ 6.4