Boxing
Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing By Donald McRay
The Sweet Science By A.J. Liebling (1956)
Baseball
Bang the Drum Slowly By Mark Harris (1956)
The Boys of Summer By Roger Kahn (1971)
Ball Four By Jim Bouton (1970)
Game Time By Roger Angell (2003)
Joe Dimaggio By Richard Ben Cramer (2000)
Praying For Gil Hodges By Tom Oliphant (2005)
The Long Season By Jim Brosnan (1960)
The Summer Game By Roger Angell (1972)
The Teammates by David Halberstam (2003)
3 Nights In August By Buzz Bissinger
You Know Me Al By Ring Lardner (1914)
Mountain Climbing On The Ridge Between Life and Death By David Roberts
Running
The Pefect Mile By Neal Bascomb
Football
The Education of a Coach By David Halberstam (2005)
Fever Pitch By Nick Hornby (1991)
Friday Night Lights By H.G. Bissinger (1990)
Instant Replay By Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap (1968)
Paper Lion By George Plimpton (1965)
Semi-Tough By Dan Jenkins (1972)
Basketball
A Season on the Brink By John Feinstein (1986)
The Breaks of the Game By David Halberstam (1981)
Heaven Is a Playground By Rick Telander (1976)
Loose Balls By Terry Pluto (1990)
The Last Shot: City Strets, Basketball Dreams By Darcy Frey
The Rivalry By John Taylor Hockey
The Game By Ken Dryden (1983)
Horse Racing
Blood Horses By John Sullivan
Seabiscuit By Laura Hillenbrand (2001)
Soccer
The Game of Their Lives By Geoffrey Douglas
Tennis
Levels of the Game By John McPhee (1969)
Golf
The Greatest Game Ever Played By Mark Frost (2002 Don DeLillo, End Zone.
James Dickey, Deliverance.
Mark Harris, The Southpaw.
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
Robert Lipsyte, The Contender
Bernard Malamud, The Natural.
Norman Maclean (1976)A River Runs Through It
John Updike, Rabbit, Run.
August Wilson, Fences. Plays:
That Championship Season by jason Miller
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
Journalism:
Sports Illustrated
New York Magazine
Rolling Stone
Films:
The Great White Hope
That Championship Season
Requiem for a Havyweight
The Harder They Fall
Paper Lion
Bang the Drum Slowly
Friday Night Lights
Field of Dreams
For Love of the Game
Hoosiers
A League of Their Own
Anthologies
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century David Halberstam, Editor Glenn Stout, Series Editor The Norton Book of Sports By George Plimpton
George Plimpton On Sports By George Plimpton
Best American Sports Writing editor - Richard Ben Cramer
Race, Identity and Sports in the 20th Century edited by Amy Bass
SportsWorld, By Robert Lipsyte