Top Nonfiction Sports Titles at GHS Library – 2009- Present
Author
Lewis, Michael
Bissinger, H. G.
Joravsky, Ben.
Bissinger, H. G.
Bo Ryan
Circulations
Our boys : a perfect season on the plains with the Smith
Center Redmen
Drape, Joe.
56
7.
Outcasts united : a refugee team, an American town
St. John, Warren.
47
8.
I beat the odds : from homelessness, to the blind side, and
beyond
Oher, Michael.
46
9.
Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest
disaster
Krakauer, Jon.
43
10.
First and long : a black school, a white school, and their
season of dreams
Borowski, Greg.
40
11. Airborne : the triumph and the struggle of Michael Jordan
Kornbluth, Jesse.
33
12. When nothing else matters : Michael Jordan's last comeback
Leahy, Michael,
32
13. Where men win glory : the odyssey of Pat Tillman
Krakauer, Jon.
32
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The blind side : evolution of a game
2.
Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream
3.
Hoop dreams : a true story of hardship and triumph
4.
Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream
5.
Bo Ryan: another hill to climb : Foreward by Rick Reilly
6.
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14. Iron heart : the true story of how I came back from the dead Boyle, Brian.
31
15. The express : the Ernie Davis story
Gallagher, Robert C.
28
Polly, Matthew.
26
17. Thunder on the tundra : football above the Arctic Circle
Freedman, Lew.
25
18. How to be like Mike : life lessons about basketball's best
Williams, Pat,
23
19. P3 : pipes, parks, and powder
Richards, Todd,
23
20. Shooting stars
James, LeBron.
23
16.
American Shaolin : flying kicks, Buddhist monks, and the
legend of iron crotch : an odyssey in the new China
21.
The 80-yard run : a twenty-week, coast-to-coast quest for
the heart of high school football
Hopkins, Theron.
22
22.
The Hurricanes : one high school team's homecoming after
Katrina
Longman, Jere.
22
23. Reggie White in the trenches : the autobiography
White, Reggie.
22
24. When the game was ours
Bird, Larry,
21
Jennings, Jay.
20
25.
Carry the rock : race, football, and the soul of an American
city
26.
Juicing the game : drugs, power, and the fight for the soul of
Bryant, Howard,
Major League Baseball
20
27.
Black & blue : a smash-mouth history of the NFL's roughest
division
Berghaus, Bob,
19
28. Open ice : reflections and confessions of a hockey lifer
Falla, Jack,
19
The boys of winter : the untold story of a coach, a dream,
29.
and the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team
Coffey, Wayne R.
18
30. Rebound : the odyssey of Michael Jordan
Greene, Bob.
18
The billion dollar game : behind the scenes of the greatest
31.
day in American sports : Super Bowl Sunday
St. John, Allen.
17
32. The gold standard : building a world-class team
Krzyzewski, Mike.
17
33. Shaquille O'Neal
Rappoport, Ken.
17
When March went mad : the game that transformed
34.
basketball
Davis, Seth.
17
35. Favre : for the record
Favre, Brett.
16
36. Never die easy : the autobiography of Walter Payton
Payton, Walter
15
Pre : the story of America's greatest running legend, Steve
37.
Prefontaine
Jordan, Tom.
15
38.
That first season : how Vince Lombardi took the worst team
in the NFL and set it on the path to glory
Eisenberg, John,
15
39.
Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest
race the world has never seen
McDougall, Christopher
14
40. Green Bay replay : the Packers' return to glory
Schaap, Dick,
14
41. Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Lewis, Michael
14
42. Misty : digging deep in volleyball and life
May-Treanor, Misty.
13
43. Never stop pushing
Gardner, Rulon.
13
Underdawgs : how Brad Stevens and the Butler Bulldogs
44. marched their way to the brink of college basketball's national Woods, David.
championship
13
45. Between a rock and a hard place
Ralston, Aron.
12
46. Driven from within
Jordan, Michael,
12
D'Orso, Michael.
12
48. How lucky you can be : the story of Coach Don Meyer
Olney, Buster.
12
49. The hustle : one team and ten lives in black and white
Merlino, Doug.
12
Allred, Lance.
12
47.
50.
Eagle blue : a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball
season in Arctic Alaska
Longshot : the adventures of a deaf fundamentalist Mormon
kid and his journey to the NBA