Sports and Leisure

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Updated November 18, 2025
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Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
Will Bardenwerper
Paper Book
A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America-written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in...
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
John W. Miller
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "">* ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025 "Baseball books don't get any better than this...Earl Weaver has at last been given his due." --George F. Will "Vivid...Most...
The Wonder Boy: Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness
Tim MacMahon
Paper Book
ESPN's Tim MacMahon goes behind the scenes of Luka Dončić's years with the Dallas Mavericks--before his trade to the Lakers stunned the basketball world--telling the story of a franchise's quest to build a championship team around a prodigy. In 2018, the...
Death of a Racehorse: An American Story
Katie Bo Lillis
The inside story of the crisis within the country's most classic sport--horseracing--and why money is killing thoroughbreds at the top of their game. Every year, hundreds of horses die on the racetrack. Why? In this deeply reported and propulsive narrative, CNN...
The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game
Nathan Kalman-Lamb
In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players from some of the country's most prominent college football teams, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore...

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