Luv reading, luv books, luv sports, simple as. Kindly share great sports reads. Can be fiction, can be technical, as long as you enjoyed reading it Ill gladly hear about it! Give me your best sports reads. And feel free to dicuss them ITT or whatever.Thanks
I like the name /sp/ /lit/ because it feels like the word "split" has been split
>>157540195Does /sp/lit/ even exist? The best I can do is some sports manga. My favorite currently is ao ashi, but if you can get through the horrible translation, giant killing is also pretty good. I would love to read actual books on sports though. Never come across any sadly
settle a debate for me please sp/lit/:is Cormac McCarthy a mainstream author?
>>157541666Yes, satan.
inb4 Damned United and Fever Pitch
>>157540195obligatory
>>157541666100%.
>>157541666He’s shit and overrated, but he’s a household name so of course he is. Just because he’s a literary poseur instead of airportslop or women’s book club shite, doesn’t stop him from being mainstream.But seriously, The Road is one of the worst books I have ever read.
That opinion might cause so much seethe that nobody wants my opinions on sporty books, but I read a book about the history of London football (I forget the title, but I think it contained all those words) and that was really enjoyable. I learnt a lot about the early days of football, including fun anecdotes, and the fact it’s only about London honestly doesn’t matter.
>>157541666wendigoon made him mainstream to zoomers, unironically
>>157541666Yeah, absolutely.
>>157544276I disagree.
>>157540195Most /split/ is about players or managers, but I can't imagine any more fascinating account of being an owner than this one. I need to see "The Saint of Second Chances" regarding his son, that's supposed to be a great documentary movie.
don't think any have been translated but Joris van de Wier wrote multiple books on English football, especially the lower league stuff. He also wrote 2 books about Hearts of Midlothian I think. It's not high brow but easy to read and oozing with love for proper footy.
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. for anyone who has even looked at a Football Manager, a franchise mode etc
Breaks of the game by David halberstam (beat and brightest is also really good. Covers generals and officers of Vietnam War) is required reading for any real basketball fan.Uses the 1978 Portland trail blazers as the frame of 70s basketball. The coke heads, the millionaires before every other sports league leading to fan resentment, owners buying and selling teams for tax purposes, the aba merger, TV battles (light beer advertising during sports is why they took off), etc. Many things happening around the league and how each applied to the blazers and bill Walton. Culminating in the draft of some guys named magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
>>157547505might actually cop this
>>157547632You WILL cop this and you WILL read it. You dont read enough, buddy
>>157541051Good post, thank you Benoit b. Spaindelbrot
>>157540195Inverting the Pyramid has been posted here already? Should be an obvious oneA German youth book I always liked growing up was Elf Freunde müsst ihr sein
>>157547365I wonder how that anon running his European baseball league simulator is faring
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>>157540195i got you senpai
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I read Mailer's The Fight many years ago and enjoyed it. Hemingway was an avid sportsman, the short story Fifty Grand comes to mind and of course The Old Man and the Sea. There is also stuff about bullfighting and hunting. His short stories are more direct if you don't want to read novels that are more about drunken expat libertines wasting away in bars than they are about sports.
>>157547505>halberstam
>/romainmolina/ threadAw sweet
>>157540195Must read.
>>157557336Oh dope, Ill get it
