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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.
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