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Books like The Gold Bat
Loved The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from sport, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
Sports writing captures something essential about competition, effort and what it means to push the body to its limits. This list spans 1901–2009 and includes 1 marked as essential reading in sport.
10 books · ranked
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Open
A tennis champion's startlingly honest memoir, including how much he hated the game; one of the best sports books ever written.
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The Abysmal Brute
"Before anyone knew there was such a thing, Jack London gave us the natural: young Pat Glendon has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco. He loves nature, is afraid of cities, and is shy of women. An
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The Young Pitcher
As a new freshman at Wayne College, Ken Ward finds a way to win recognition through his pitching skills.
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The ill-made knight
"Este libro presenta un acercamiento al "proceso de cambio" que tuvo lugar en Bolivia (2006-2019) desde las políticas deportivas implementadas por el gobierno de Evo Morales, a partir de la siguientes
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The Game
"On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the pr
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Casey At the Bat
A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who struck out in the crucial moment of a game.
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Annapurna-conquest of the first 8000 metre peak
One of the great works of mountaineering literature- long out of print and now reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.The enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the f
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The natural
Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring h
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Hustler (Alpha Books)
"Fast" Eddie knows the scene. He knows the alcohol, he knows the road, he knows the men, and -- most importantly -- he knows the hustle. After years of beating everyone he can on the road, Eddie is ge
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
A short story collection featuring, in the title story, one of Sillitoe’s very best. The story concerns a teenaged boy from a poor working class background who is sent to a borstal for robbery and tak