Sports Books

I've only read one football book in my life (about the Bears near-perfect season), but I just started Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season. I can tell right away that I'm going to like it.

I lied--I've read three now. There was also Jeff Pearlman's book on the USFL.

Anyway, good book. The number of players from that '72 Dolphins team who suffered from dementia or Alzheimer's later in life is disturbing. From just after they won the Super Bowl:

Ten miles away, in Little Havana, fifteen-year-old Gloria Estefan, who'd been watching and cheering with her family, heard the same thing. "I remember going outside and lying on the roof of my mother's Monte Carlo and staring up at the stars and hearing the city exploding and horn-honking and celebration."

Ball Four -Jim Bouton
― scott seward (scott seward)

Seconded. And if you are a fan of boxing...

My View From the Corner: A Life in Boxing, Angelo Dundee & Bert Sugar

Lots of Ball Four talk here:

Baseball Books