2. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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8. Chris Carmichael's Food For Fitness: Eat Right To Train Right
Chris Carmichael, Jim Rutberg, Kathy Zawadzki |  Rating: 4.0/5
Rank: 477 | Marathon runners, triathletes, long-distance runners, bicyclists and other
very active adults are "a minority group living in a society struggling to
cope with serious health issues." America's current focus... more
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9. The Plane Truth for Golfers
Jim Hardy, John Andrisani |  Rating: 5.0/5
Rank: 376 | "Jim Hardy is the most knowledgeable teacher in golf. This extraordinary
book will be the most revolutionary instructional book since Ben Hogan's
Five Lessons."--Peter Jacobsen, Seven-time PGA Tour event
winner Voted one... more
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