The Sweet Science
1956 · 267 pages
Liebling covered Rocky Marciano knocking out an aging Joe Louis, writing the trainers and cornermen with as much relish as the champions. He set the standard American boxing writing still works from.
★ 5.6
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The Breaks of the Game
1981 · 400 pages
One collapsing season with the Portland Trail Blazers, three years after their title, and Halberstam turns it into an anatomy of how television money and race were remaking professional basketball from the inside.
★ 5.6
When Pride Still Mattered
A Life of Vince Lombardi
1999 · 541 pages
The finest life written of an American coach. Maraniss takes Lombardi from a Brooklyn butcher's son studying for the priesthood to the Packers dynasty, and shows what the discipline cost his family.
★ 4.7