Life of Reilly
by Rick Reilly
Finally a "Best of" work from the Sports Illustrated writer, best known now for his back-page weekly column. Reilly is always witty and entertaining, but he can also provide a serious look on occasion
Suggested retail: $22.95
To purchase: www.amazon.com
Beyond the Game:
The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith
by Gary Smith
Smith, also a Sports Illustrated scribe, is among the best in the business. His first collection gives the reader a wide emotional range to choose from.
Suggested retail: $24
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The Last Amateurs: Playing for Glory and Honor
in Division I College Basketball
by John Feinstein
Another entertaining read from one of the country's most prolific writers. Feinstein tends to preach a bit when it comes to college hoops, but his latest is thorough and provocative.
Suggested retail: $24.95
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Missing Links: America's Greatest Lost
Golf Courses and Holes
by Daniel Wexler
Wexler's effort is an enterprising and entertaining piece of detective work that all golf fans will enjoy.
Suggested retail: $35
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Alister MacKenzie's Cypress Point Club
by Geoff Shackelford
A beautiful addition to any golf library, written by the country's premier golf course historian.
Suggested retail: $35
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Arizona's Greatest Golf Courses
by Bill Huffman
This season's winner for the coffee table. Allows those in winter wonderlands to dream off into warmer landscapes.
Suggested retail: $40
To purchase: www.amazon.com
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
by F.X. Toole
The top boxing offering on our list. Toole takes advantage of his many years in the sport to offer observations and thoughts on the sweet science.
Suggested retail: $23
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The Subway Series Reader
Edited by Pete Hamill
A wonderful anthology of the Yankees-Mets World Series by some of the biggest names around.
Suggested retail: $20
To purchase: www.amazon.com
The Subway Series -- The Yankees, the Mets
and a Season to Remember
Edited by The Sporting News
The Sporting News and Major League
Baseball teamed up to produce the official book of the 2000 World Series.
New York's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, provides the forward for the 152-page
book that is loaded with full-color photographs. A very nice coffee table-style
book for the Yankees fan.
Suggested retail: $29.95
To purchase: www.amazon.com
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball
and Honor on the Little Big Horn
by Larry Colton
Colton, a former professional baseball player and veteran author, spent 15 months on the Crow reservation in Montana observing the Hardin High School girls' basketball team. He examines their relationships with people as an athlete and the social issues surrounding their lives as Native Americans.
Suggested retail: $24.95
To purchase: www.amazon.com
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
by Richard Ben Cramer
Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, looks behind the Dimaggio myth and reveals a flawed human being who also happens to be one of the best baseball players who ever lived.
Suggested retail: $28
To purchase: www.amazon.com
And the Fans Roared: The Sports Broadcasts
That Kept Us on the Edge of Our Seats
by Joe Garner
The book and two CDs work in tandem to bring you more of sports greatest moments of the past and includes those as recent as Tiger Woods 2000 U.S. Open victory.
Suggested retail: $49.95
To purchase: www.amazon.com
Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage
of a Football Coach's Daughter
by Jennifer Allen
From the first, Jennifer Allen makes you feel like you're in the room with her family after her father has been fired as coach of the Los Angeles Rams. She tells a compelling story of her father, George Allen the top-ranked NFL coach through the 1960s and '70s, and his obsessive pursuit of the Super Bowl.
Suggested retail: $23.95
To purchase: www.amazon.com
2001 ESPN Information Please Sports Almanac
In addition to fast access to the facts, the 2001 Almanac takes a look at those people and events responsible for guiding sports along the winding road of the past century. Included are all the winners and losers year-by-year and sport-by-sport.
Suggested retail: $12.99
To purchase: www.barnesandnoble.com
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