Sport
Athletes, teams, coaching, training and the culture of competition, from the inside and from the stands. Read by fans, competitors and anyone drawn to high performance under pressure.
99 books
Books 99
T1 Moneyball
Michael Lewis · 2003 · Mispriced player assets inside a payroll-constrained franchise.
Ted Williams, John Underwood · 1970
W. Timothy Gallwey · 1974 · Performance under pressure; the self-interference problem investors recognise
T2 Soccernomics
Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski · 2009 · Why football clubs are poor businesses but resilient assets.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison · 2009 · Bill Walsh's standard of performance as an organisational system
T2 The Club
Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg · 2018 · How the Premier League turned clubs into globally traded media assets.
Neil deMause, Joanna Cagan · 1998 · The stadium-subsidy machine that props up franchise valuations.
Kenny Moore · 2006 · Biography of Nike's co-founder and coach, by his athlete.
Julian Guthrie · 2013 · His America's Cup campaign; the only book covering the later Ellison.
David Epstein · 2013 · Talent, training and genetics in elite athletic performance
Charles C. Euchner · 1993 · Why teams move and cities pay to keep them.
David Remnick · 1998
Dan Wetzel, Don Yaeger · 2000 · Nike money inside youth basketball and endorsement pipelines.
Michael A. Leeds, Peter von Allmen · 2001 · The standard textbook on league structure, revenue sharing and valuation.
Geoff Hollister · 2008 · Insider account: Nike's third employee on the running boom.
T4 Relentless
Shari Lesser Wenk, Tim Grover · 2013
Steven Kotler · 2014
Richard Moore · 2015
T4 Rising Above
Gregory Zuckerman, Elijah Zuckerman, Gabriel Zuckerman · with Elijah Zuckerman, Gabriel Zuckerman · 2016 · Sports book for young readers
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