Books – Sports & Recreation

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Books On Cassette	Books On Cd	Coaching	Extreme Sports
Football (American)	Golf	Hiking-Camping	Hockey
Hunting-Fishing	Individual Sports	Miscellaneous	Mountaineering
Racket Sports	Rodeos	Soccer	Softball
Training	Water Sports	Winter Sports	Other Team Sports

Top 10 Selling Sports/Recreation Books

1. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 15 People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for... more Product Information  |  Editorials(14)  |  Customer Reviews(57) 2. Lance Armstrong's War: One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France Daniel Coyle Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 17 When an athlete is as celebrated as Lance Armstrong, journalists tend to approach either with staggering awe or malicious schadenfreude. Refreshingly, Coyle (Hardball) displays neither. The journalist moved to Armstrong's... more Product Information  |  Editorials(6)  |  Customer Reviews(24) 3. Three Nights in August Buzz Bissinger Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 107 Starred Review. Bissinger eschews the usual method of writing about baseball in the context of a season or a career, choosing instead to dissect the game by carefully watching one three-game series between the Cardinals... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(21) 4. Every Second Counts Lance Armstrong Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 103 In the opening of Lance Armstrong's memoir, Every Second Counts (co-authored by Sally Jenkins), he reflects: "Generally, one of the hardest things in the world to do is something twice." While he is talking here about... more Product Information  |  Editorials(7)  |  Customer Reviews(55) 5. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 166 People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for... more Product Information  |  Editorials(14)  |  Customer Reviews(57) 6. The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael, Peter Joffre Nye Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 184 It's hard to argue with success; it's even tougher to emulate it. But if you want to train like a Tour de France winner, you couldn't do much better than learning the tricks of the trade from two-time champion (1999... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(29) 7. Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, The: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time Michael Craig Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 224 The "professor" is Howard Lederer, a professional poker player whose rigorous analytical approach to the game earned him his nickname. The banker is Andy Beal, a multimillionaire obsessed with beating the world's best poker... more Product Information  |  Editorials(2)  |  Customer Reviews(8) 8. Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers Thomas Oliphant Rating: 3.5/5 Rank: 279 Driving over a bridge on an Indiana highway named after Hodges, a star first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, sets off a chain of memories from the Dodgers' only World Series victory for Oliphant. His memoir's... more Product Information  |  Editorials(0)  |  Customer Reviews(5) 9. Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf Ben Hogan Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 334 Ben Hogan's premise in this 1957 classic is driven home in bold letters: "THE AVERAGE GOLFER IS ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF BUILDING A REPEATING SWING AND BREAKING 80." Religions are founded on less, and Hogan's... more Product Information  |  Editorials(4)  |  Customer Reviews(51) 10. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis Rating: 4.5/5 Rank: 304 Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional... more Product Information  |  Editorials(16)  |  Customer Reviews(57)