A March to Madness, John Feinstein

follows the '97-'98 ACC basketball season from all nine schools' perspectives and goes over a brief history of ACC basketball while it's at it - it has personal things about the you never knew and would never know otherwise - it's a thing of beauty

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11/20/2005 12:11:14 AM

Moneyball

11/20/2005 1:31:19 AM

bodog

11/20/2005 1:43:20 AM

great thread.. one of the better books I've read lately is Buster Olney's The Last Years of the Yankee Dynasty, brilliant sportswriting - I hate the Yankees, but loved the book. Olney was the beat reporter for the Yankees for a couple of years; he gives alot of interesting inside information, made me respect some guys alot more than before like Rivera, Jeter, Torre

11/20/2005 2:03:24 AM

http://www.tradesports.com

11/20/2005 2:57:42 AM

Three Nights in August...Buzz Bissinger with Tony La Russa.

11/20/2005 4:09:10 AM

The Baseball Encyclopedia

11/20/2005 9:38:20 AM

The Race by Tim Zimmerman.

I've read it 6 times.

11/20/2005 9:40:01 AM

MJ's bio

11/20/2005 11:57:21 AM

The Mick

11/20/2005 1:38:47 PM

Matt Christopher books from 5th grade

11/20/2005 1:49:47 PM

i probably had a double digit amount of those

11/20/2005 3:03:14 PM

^^ I had all those books too, the best one was bout some fatass named boots who was too fat to play QB and they made him play lineman. The climax was when he took a fumble for a touchdown. I forget what it was called.

Between Matt Christopher and RL Stein, I spent countless hours on the john

11/20/2005 11:45:52 PM

Coaching Basketball Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series) by Morgan Wootten because I went to DeMatha.

11/20/2005 11:48:43 PM

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"Matt Christopher books from 5th grade"

11/21/2005 12:46:24 AM

W. P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe

Fiction, I know, but great none the less.

11/21/2005 9:29:00 AM

^Agreed, Shoeless Joe is great.

One of the classics: Feinstein's Season on the Brink, following Bob Knight through the season in '85-'86.

11/21/2005 9:38:06 AM

the homerun kid

and the return of the homerun kid

11/21/2005 12:17:57 PM

11/21/2005 12:39:17 PM

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger

Way better than that silly movie.

11/21/2005 12:48:11 PM

The Miracle of St Anthony (About Bobby Hurley Sr.)... excellent read!!...and it doesn't hurt that it makes mention of our boys Julius Hodge, Brandon Costner, and Gavin Grant. Also V & Me: Everbody's favorite Jim Valvano Story, for obvious reasons.

11/21/2005 1:20:16 PM

The Legend of Bagger Vance

11/21/2005 2:03:36 PM

thought i'd bump this for some input

i'm looking for some holiday plane travel material

has anybody read the sports guy's book? i've been reading his columns for years, but i'm not a red sox fan

any other suggestions are welcome, too

12/16/2005 1:49:00 PM

not neccessarily a "sports" book, but Foley Is Good is a damn good read

12/16/2005 1:52:59 PM

A Season on the Brink a season w/ Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers, Steve Alford's breakout year at Indiana...crazy shit

12/16/2005 1:57:22 PM

Bleachers by John Grisham

I think its the only true sports book I've ever read.

12/16/2005 2:15:59 PM

Bleachers was great! If You count Tuesday's With Morrie, by Mitch Albom as a sports book, That is a great read. Three Nights In August and Moneyball are my favorite. Bringing Down The House, for you gamblers, is great too!

12/16/2005 2:21:44 PM

^^^^^ I read Sports Guy's book... I actually started keeping up with the Red Sox because of him -- like so I could understand most of the stuff in his columns -- but I'm not some hardcore crazy Red Sox fan. This book is just a collection of his favorite Red Sox columns and its really cool to go back and read columns of his that you remember reading but forgot about his little jokes and stuff. He also spent a lot of time adding in footnotes to explain some of his jokes and his stories. But this book is only appreciated if you're somewhat of a fan of the Red Sox. Really funny though, I love the column about his friend's wedding and how he missed Pedro's performance in the playoffs against the Indians

12/16/2005 9:05:13 PM

I remember that column . . . I've been thinking about picking up a copy of his book. I love Simmons's columns.

12/17/2005 2:00:09 AM

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"Moneyball"

12/17/2005 2:42:01 AM

Ball Four by Jim Bouton is one of the best books ever written.

12/17/2005 3:27:28 AM

John Feinstein's Last Amateurs about Patriot League basketball and A Civil War about the Army-Navy football rivalry

12/17/2005 4:48:45 AM

bump

just finished The Last Shot, by Darcy Frey - gives details on how fragile it all can be growing up and playing bball on Coney Island, NY - Stephon Marbury, who grew up there, is one of the main characters it follows as a youngster

1/27/2006 12:31:26 AM

The Game by Ken Dryden (if you don't understand hockey, you will after reading this)
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven by Ken Baker

1/27/2006 12:54:54 AM

The Gave Me A Lifetime Contract... - Jimmy V


From 33rd St. To Camden Yards: A History of the Baltimore Orioles - old player accounts all the way back from when they were the St. Louis Browns.

1/27/2006 12:58:54 AM

License to Deal by Jerry Crasnick

1/27/2006 10:17:32 AM

David Thompson: Skywalker

1/27/2006 10:50:19 AM

^ that book was horrible. I like david thompson and all but its written on a 2nd grade reading level

1/27/2006 4:48:21 PM

^ I agree. Skywalker wasn't written very well, and it got into too much of the "I scored 25 that night and had 34 the next two along with 8 rebs...etc.etc.etc" instead of just telling his story. Rather boring. The only parts I really enjoyed were the "How UNC put us on probation in 73'" part and the Studio 54 fall that ruined his career

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"A March to Madness, John Feinstein"

I'm actually reading that right now.


It's aight thus far. Not great, but definetely worth the read (Granted, I'm only about 1/3 through it



I haven't read that many, but my fave has gotta be:




Four Corners: How UNC, NC State, Duke, and Wake Forest made North Carolina the Center of the Basketball Universe - By Joe Menzer


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1/27/2006 5:01:47 PM

^

It sucks how they used that as our logo.

1/27/2006 5:04:44 PM

I actually think that's an older version (Either that, or brand new)


I read the book about 6 months ago, and that wasn't the cover on it. This was




Dont know if it's a newer version or if that's a really old cover (I think the book is fairly recent).

But yeah, I put that one becuase it's easier to read than the tiny font in the photo above

1/27/2006 5:06:45 PM

yeah its true that DT's book really wasnt written that well, but i thought that a lot of the content was pretty interesting.

1/27/2006 5:09:41 PM

^

Summary: could have been one of the greatest of all time but threw it all away.


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1/27/2006 5:11:07 PM

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"I went to DeMatha"

did you know Christopher Allen (c/o '03)?
he's a good friend of mine

1/27/2006 9:28:52 PM

The Catcher with the Glass Arm

The Homerun Kid was good too

also enjoyed Challenge at Second Base... gives hope to all those lefties who play second in elementary school

1/28/2006 11:13:22 AM

reading The Last Good Season by Michael Shapiro

It chronicles the Dodgers last season in Brooklyn and pennant race (with the old Braves) in 1956, the year before they and the Giants moved out west

The details involving the players themselves, the rivalry between the three teams in the city, and the love affair between the team and the community are really worth reading

Obviously, it sheds some light into the mechanics and politics of a team's move to another city, which is something I also wanted to read about growing up a Hornets fan

4/19/2006 8:51:21 PM

Hoops by Billy Packer. Awesome history and its hilarious.

march to madness is a good one too, but not so much for State fans because Sendek wouldnt grant any access.

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4/19/2006 11:41:54 PM

5 months later, I still thought this had something to do with betting

4/20/2006 2:24:46 AM

The Legend of Bagger Vance

4/20/2006 2:28:36 AM

Just read this... I'd recommend it as well.

( I actually liked it more than Four Corners)

4/20/2006 7:26:42 AM