Sport

How the Oakland A's won on a small payroll by buying players the market undervalued.

How to hit a baseball, built on a map of the strike zone graded by success.

Performing under pressure by quieting the self-interference that spoils play.

Why football clubs are poor businesses but resilient assets.

How a coach took the 49ers from 2 and 14 to three Super Bowls with set standards.

The NFL in an era of success, dangerous injuries and scandal.

How the Premier League turned clubs into globally traded media assets.

How team owners extract public money for stadiums by threatening to move.

Bill Bowerman, Oregon track coach and Nike co-founder, told by one of his runners.

Adidas and Puma; the rivalry Nike displaced.

His America's Cup campaign; the only book covering the later Ellison.

Talent, training and genetics in elite athletic performance

How sports franchises press cities for new stadiums by threatening to move.

How to ride a motorcycle well on city streets and country roads and handle hazards.

Nike money inside youth basketball and endorsement pipelines.

825 aphorisms on 72 topics, from spirituality to personal liberation and family.

Economics applied to sport: league structure, revenue sharing and team valuation.

Bill Belichick's life and career coaching the New England Patriots.

A boy from a poor, broken home discovers football and rises to the NFL.

The first Black heavyweight champion on his boxing career and race in the 1900s.

Nike's third employee on how the company marketed the running boom.

A tennis champion's life story, built around the fact that he hated tennis.

How to separate skill from luck in business, sport and investing.

The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their quest for Olympic gold.

How ancient Greek heroes' secrets of strength live on in Crete, via a WWII kidnap.

How extreme-sports athletes use flow states to push performance further.

Sports book for young readers

The gritty reality behind the hoop dreams of America's young basketball prodigies.

A powerlifter's guide to the mental training behind world-class strength.