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Sports Illustrated Top 100 Sports Books

Published 12/16/02 in Sports Illustrated

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1. The Sweet Science
by A.J. Liebling
  
2. The Boys of Summer
by Roger Kahn
  
3. Ball Four: The Final Pitch
by Jim Bouton
  
4. Friday Night Lights  
5. You Know Me Al A Bushers Letters  
6. Season on the Brink
by John Feinstein
  
7.
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 Semi-Tough: A Novel
by Dan Jenkins
  
8. Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
by George Plimpton
  
9. The Game  
10. Fever Pitch
by Nick Hornby
  
11. A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
by Norman Maclean
  
12. Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand
  
13. Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
by Terry Pluto
  
14. Bang the Drum Slowly
by Mark Harris
  
15. Heaven Is a Playground (Second Edition)
by Rick Telander
  
16. Levels of the Game
by John McPhee
  
17.
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 Breaks of the Game, The
by David Halberstam
  
18. The Summer Game (Bison Book)
by Roger Angell
  
19. The Long Season
by Jim Brosnan
  
20. Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer
by Jerry Kramer
  
21. Everybody's All-American
by Frank Deford
  
22. Fat City (California Fiction)
by Leonard Gardner
  
23. The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
by Pete Axthelm
  
24.
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 the natural  
25. North Dallas Forty (Hall of Fame Edition, No. 1)
by Peter Gent
  
26. When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi
by David Maraniss
  
27. Babe: The Legend Comes to Life
by Robert Creamer
  
28. The Golf Omnibus
by P.G. Wodehouse
  
29. About Three Bricks Shy: And The Load Filled Up
by Roy Blount Jr
  
30. A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley
  
31. Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life
by Richard Ben Cramer
  
32. The Game They Played
by Stanley Cohen
  
33. Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
by Bill Veeck
  
34. Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf
by Ben Hogan
  
35. The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  
36. Beyond a Boundary
by C. L. R. James
  
37. A False Spring
by Pat Jordan
  
38. Life on the Run
by Bill Bradley
  
39.
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 The Red Smith reader
by Red Smith
  
40.
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 An Outside Chance - Essays on Sports
by Thomas McGUANE
  
41. The Unforgettable Season
by G. H. Fleming
  
42. The Celebrant
by Eric Rolfe Greenberg
  
43.
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 Big Red of Meadow Stable: Secretariat, the making of a champion
by William Nack
  
44. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
by Bill James
  
45. End Zone
by Don DeLillo
  
46.
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 Foul! : The Connie Hawkins Story
by David Wolf
  
47. Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella
  
48. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
  
49. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
by Eliot Asinof
  
50.
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 Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
by Jules Tygiel
  
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