5 Best Sports Biographies That You Must Read

A list of the 5 best sports biographies that you must read. The books on this list are a showcase of true stories that are bound to move and inspire readers of all ages, backgrounds, and athletic abilities. Check out the booklist.

1. Football Against The Enemy

Football Against The Enemy

Throughout the world, football is a potent force in the lives of billions of people. Focusing national, political and cultural identities, football is the medium through which the world’s hopes and fears, passions and hatreds are expressed.

2. Touching The Void

Touching The Void

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson’s terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that that Joe was dead.

3. A Good Walk Spoiled

A Good Walk Spoiled

A GOOD WALK SPOILED is John Feinstein’s acclaimed behind-the-scenes account of an unusually turbulent year in the punishingly competitive world of the US professional golf circuit.

4. I Never Had It Made

I Never Had It Made

5. Moneyball – The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball – The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A’s, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

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