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Sports Books Hall of Fame

Our selection of the best sports writing ever. Of course it’s a highly subjective list but, go on, try one. Any one. You won’t be disappointed.

Image	Title, Author and Description	Price
	Paper Lion - 45th Anniversary Edition By George Plimpton Combining humour, inside sports-lore, mayhem and excitement, Paper Lion recounts the adventures of a professional writer and weekend athlete as…	£11.99 (Paperback)
	The Fight By Norman Mailer In 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire, Muhammad Ali met the undefeated (some said unconquerable) George Foreman for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship.…	£9.99 (Paperback)
	Touching the Void By Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner,…	~~£7.99~~ £6.99 (Save 13%) (Paperback)
	Rough Ride By Paul Kimmage First published in 1990, Rough Ride is one of the greatest books ever written about the life of a professional athlete. Almost twenty years later,…	~~£8.99~~ £7.99 (Save 11%) (Paperback)
	Paper Lion - 40th Anniversary Edition By George Plimpton Combining humour, inside sports-lore, mayhem and excitement, Paper Lion recounts the adventures of a professional writer and weekend athlete as…	£10.99 (Paperback)
	The Boys of Summer By Roger Khan This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting…	£9.99 (Paperback)
	The Football Man By Arthur Hopcroft 'Football matters, as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others...Football is inherent in the people...There is more eccentricity in…	£7.99 (Paperback)
	Beyond a Boundary By CLR James Poses the now famous question "What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?" James interweaves history and politics in an exploration…	~~£7.99~~ £7.19 (Save 10%) (Paperback)
	Redemption Song By Mike Marqusee New Edition: A new afterword considers Ali and his legacy in light of the war on terror and new connotations of Islam and the West. Is…	~~£10.99~~ £9.99 (Save 9%) (Paperback)
	Friday Night Lights By H.G. Bissinger Bissinger's astonishing and gripping portrait of high school football in a small West Texas town. Odessa follows its Permian Panthers with a…	~~£8.99~~ £8.09 (Save 10%) (Paperback)