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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
from Publishing Mills

Customer Review:

This is my pick for the best sports book ever written, and the reason is because it transcends sports. It captures the mood and feel of small town America as well as any book since Larry McMurtry's The LAST PICTURE SHOW. What Bissinger describes about the so-called pinnacle of life in western Texas,... more info

Customer Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
from Mariner Books
Price: $11.16

Customer Review:

For all of the hype and attention this book received, this has to be one of the most disappointing baseball books I have ever read. I read this book hoping to gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings of managerial strategy than a fan usually has; instead I was treated to excessive fawning... more info

Customer Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

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A Prayer for the City
from Random House

Customer Review:

Few modern writers can put forth such heavy-weight classic books as Bissinger's FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and A PRAYER FOR THE CITY. Moving to Philadelphia and trying to get a sense of the place, A PRAYER held me captive. It was a first-hand account of what I was seeing, and in beautiful prose. Very... more info

Customer Rating:
4.5 / 5.0

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The Best American Sports Writing 2003 (The Best American Series)
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $13.00

Customer Review:

This book presents an incredibly grim view of sports. Is there no good sports writing that actually deals with sport or do writers today only deal with the personalities and the pains of sports? If you want to kill any joy left of sports in your life then open up this book and let these writers open... more info

Customer Rating:
3.5 / 5.0

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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
from RB Large Print

3 Nights in August Stragegy, Heartbreak and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
from HM Co

A Prayer For The City TheSaid it was a Place That Couldn't be saved. One man decided to save it.
from Random House

Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy
from Playaway
Price: $54.99

3 Nights in August Strategy, Heartbreak and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
from HM CO

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Costas on Baseball
from Broadway Books