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Read and react: Selecting our 20 favorite sports books

Jacque Colbert by Jacque Colbert
May 7, 2020
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We’ve been with out sports activities for occurring two months now. We’ve turn out to be determined for the content material that so many people craved each day. The NFL draft set file viewership numbers. Persons are waking up early, staying up late or setting their DVRs to look at reside baseball from South Korea.

When ESPN re-aired cornhole tournaments from beer-swilling, bean-bag tossing days of yore, we watched.

Oh, we watched. As a result of we needed something to really feel regular once more.

J.Okay. Rowling stated: “I do consider one thing very magical can occur once you learn a ebook.”

With that in thoughts, our newest Star Tribune Sports activities Digital Completely satisfied Hour Draft targeted on sports activities books. Not essentially one of the best books. Not even the preferred ones. Merely our strategies or our favorites.

Ten writers and editors gathered to make their picks, two selections every draft-day fashion. What are we studying throughout this time of clean TV screens the place there as soon as was heart-pulsing motion?

We in all probability may have gone 20 rounds right here (and a number of other advocated for such). However listed here are our high 20.

You’ll discover classics. You’ll discover forgotten treasures. You’ll even discover a couple novels. What did we miss? Tell us within the feedback.

Completely satisfied studying.

1. “State” by Melissa Isaacson (Howard Sinker, digital sports activities editor)
2. “Ball 4” by Jim Bouton (Jerry Zgoda, soccer and golf author)
3. “Seabiscuit” by Laura Hillenbrand (Joe Christensen, faculty sports activities editor)
4. “Friday Night time Lights” by Buzz Bissinger (Naila-Jean Meyers, senior assistant sports activities editor)
5. “Paper Lion” by George Plimpton (Rachel Blount, Olympics and horse racing author)
6. “Boys of Summer season” by Roger Kahn (Chris Miller, professional sports activities editor)
7. “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace (Jeff Day, copy editor)
8. “A Good Stroll Spoiled” by John Feinstein (Brian Stensaas, evening net sports activities editor and golf author)
9. “Ted Williams: The Biography of An American Hero” by Leigh Montville (Casey Frequent, net editor)
10. “The Soul of Baseball” by Joe Posnanski (Michael Rand, senior digital author)
11. “Seasons in Hell” by Mike Shropshire (Rand)
12. “Lords of the Realm” by John Helyar (Frequent)
13. “The Woman Who Liked Tom Gordon” by Stephen King (Stensaas)
14. “The Summer season Recreation” by Roger Angell (Day)
15. “The Recreation” by Ken Dryden (Miller)
16. “Loopy Good” by Charles Leerhsen (Blount)
17. “The Artwork of Fielding” by Chad Harback (Meyers)
18. “Backside of the 33rd” by Dan Barry (Christensen)
19. “The Receiver” by Tex Maule (Zgoda)
20: “Subsequent Man Up” by John Feinstein (Sinker)
 

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