Best Sports Books to Read

What are some of the best sports novels you have read? Autobiography, biography. etc. I am a big reader and sports fan, so I want to read more novels like this. I just said The Jordan Rules and thought it was pretty solid.

Thanks in advance. 

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Baseball has been and always will be my main sport, so for comedy, the Hall of Shame series is a must read, but I would say my favorite sports book ever is Playing With The Enemy. Biography about a catcher back in the 1940s and his journey overseas, and then what happens when he returns home. Absolute 10/10, one of the most interesting biographies I've ever read.

 

This isn't an autobiography or biography, but I cannot recommend (Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever) enough, as it is a very good book filled with lockerroom talks and private chats with the players. I read it dozens of times, it is an amazing read!

 

Money Ball is great. I also really liked Ball Four by Jim Bouton. Behind the scenes stuff from when he played for the Yankees and others. Plus he was a knuckleballer so he's kinda weird and funny. 

 

Underworld - Don DeLillo

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

 

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