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John McPhee’s A Sense of Where You Are.  (And his book Oranges, not a sports book, is among my very favorites ever.  Ditto his The Headmaster. (Any Deerfield alums reading this?)

Leonard Koppet’s The Essence of the Game Is Deception.

Another vote for Dan Jenkin’s Dead Solid Perfect.  It, and The Great American Novel, are the two books that made me laugh loudest.

Roger Angell seems without peer.  He changed how most readers thought about baseball.

Haven’t loved many sports movies but loved the TV series Friday Night Lights.  Suffered a few silly football scenes but oh well.  Loved the interplay between coach and his wife.

Tin Cup got me a couple times but several steps short of Bull Durham.
Hoop Dreams was good but now seems overrated.
Hard to beat the Harvard Yale documentary. 
Moneyball might be my favorite. Who would have guessed they could make that work?

[Hulk01]

John McPhee’s A Sense of Where You Are.  (And his book Oranges, not a sports book, is among my very favorites ever.  Ditto his The Headmaster. (Any Deerfield alums reading this?)

Leonard Koppet’s The Essence of the Game Is Deception.

Another vote for Dan Jenkin’s Dead Solid Perfect.  It, and The Great American Novel, are the two books that made me laugh loudest.

Roger Angell seems without peer.  He changed how most readers thought about baseball.

Haven’t loved many sports movies but loved the TV series Friday Night Lights.  Suffered a few silly football scenes but oh well.  Loved the interplay between coach and his wife.

Tin Cup got me a couple times but several steps short of Bull Durham.
Hoop Dreams was good but now seems overrated.
Hard to beat the Harvard Yale documentary. 
Moneyball might be my favorite. Who would have guessed they could make that work?