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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
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3.82 avg rating — 5,788 ratings
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sports – A Compelling History of Rivalry and Deals
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3.90 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
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Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar
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4.11 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
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4.23 avg rating — 14,110 ratings
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Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
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4.21 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
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3.81 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
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4.27 avg rating — 3,127 ratings
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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
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4.20 avg rating — 38,215 ratings
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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4.46 avg rating — 373,051 ratings
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From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA
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3.83 avg rating — 186 ratings
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When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks – The Definitive 1970s NBA Championship History
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4.18 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
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4.36 avg rating — 4,746 ratings
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The Bad Guys Won: A season of brawling, boozing, bimbo-chasing, and championship baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the rest of the 1986 Mets, the rowdiest team to ever put on a New York uniform--and maybe the best
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4.10 avg rating — 5,863 ratings
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Life on the Run
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4.10 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball
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4.20 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Summer of '49
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4.11 avg rating — 10,035 ratings
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When the Game Was Ours
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4.23 avg rating — 16,100 ratings
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Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
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3.76 avg rating — 14,598 ratings
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Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
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