Sports
Kevin Cook, Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever.
Kevin Cook, Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink.
Seth Davis, When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball.
Seth Davis, Wooden: A Coach’s Life.
Joe Drape, Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.
Joe Drape, Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point.
Doug Glanville, The Game from Where I Stand: From Batting Practice to the Clubhouse to the Best Breakfast on the Road, an Inside View of a Ballplayer’s Life.
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team.
Michael G. Long, ed., The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson.
G. Wayne Miller, Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR’s Breakout Season.
Michael Shapiro, Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself.
Brandon Sneed, Sooner: The Making of a Football Coach—Lincoln Riley’s Rise from West Texas to the University of Oklahoma.
Burt Solomon, Where They Ain’t: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth to Modern Baseball.
Jim Squires, Horse of a Different Color: A Tale of Breeding Geniuses, Dominant Females, and the Fastest Derby Winner Since Secretariat.
Mike Stanton, Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World.
Don Van Natta Jr., First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to Bush.
Joseph J. Vecchione, ed., The New York Times Book of Sports Legends.
George Vecsey, Eight World Cups: My Journey Through the Beauty and Dark Side of Soccer.