# Sports Illustrated Top 100 Sports Books 1. [x] **_The Sweet Science_** by A. J. Liebling (1956) 2. [ ] _The Boys of Summer_ by Roger Kohn (1971) 3. [x] **_Ball Four_** by Jim Bouton (1970) 4. [ ] _Friday Night Lights_ by H. G. Bissinger (1990) 5. [ ] _You Know Me Al_ by Ring Lardner (1914) 6. [ ] _A Season on the Brink_ by John Feinstein (1986) 7. [ ] _Semi-Touch_ by Dan Jenkins (1972) 8. [ ] _Paper Lion_ by George Plimpton (1965) 9. [ ] _The Game_ by Ken Dryden (1983) 10. [ ] _Fever Pitch_ by Nick Hornby (1991) 11. [ ] _A River Runs Through It_ by Norman MacLean (1976) 12. [ ] _Seabiscuit_ by Laura Hillenbrand (2001) 13. [ ] _Loose Balls_ by Terry Pluto (1990) 14. [ ] _Bang the Drum Slowly_ by Mark Harris (1956) 15. [ ] _Heaven is a Playground_ by Rick Telander (1976) 16. [ ] _Levels of the Game_ by John McPhee (1969) 17. [ ] _The Breaks of the Game_ by David Halberstam (1981) 18. [ ] _The Summer Game_ by Roger Angell (1972) 19. [ ] _The Long Season_ by Jim Brosman (1960) 20. [ ] _Instant Replay_ by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap (1968) 21. [ ] _Everybody's All-American_ by Frank Deford (1981) 22. [ ] _Fat City_ by Leonard Gardner (1969) 23. [ ] _The City Game_ by Pete Axthelm (1970) 24. [x] **_The Natural_** by Bernard Malamud (1952) 25. [ ] _North Dallas Forty_ by Peter Gent (1973) 26. [ ] _When Pride Still Mattered_ by David Maraniss (1999) 27. [ ] _Babe: The Legend Comes to Life_ by Robert Creamer (1974) 28. [ ] _The Gold Omnibus_ by P. G. Wodehouse (1973) 29. [ ] _About Three Bricks Shy of a Load_ by Roy Blount, Jr. (1974) 30. [ ] _A Fan's Notes_ by Frederick Exley (1968) 31. [ ] _Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life_ by Richard Ben Cramer (2000) 32. [ ] _The Game They Played_ by Stanley Cohen (1977) 33. [ ] _Veeck as in Wreck_ by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn (1962) 34. [ ] _Ben Hogan's Five Lessons_ by Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind (1957) 35. [x] **_The Worst Journey in the World_** by Apsley Cherry-Gerard (1922) 36. [ ] _Beyond a Boundary_ by C. L. R. James (1963) 37. [ ] _A False Spring_ by Pat Jordan (1975) 38. [ ] _Life on the Run_ by Bill Bradley (1976) 39. [ ] _The Red Smith Reader_ by Red Smith (1982) 40. [ ] _An Outside Chance: Essays on Sport_ by Thomas McGuane (1980) 41. [ ] _The Unforgettable Season_ by Gordon H. Flemming (1981) 42. [ ] _The Celebrant_ by Eric Rolfe Greenberg (1983) 43. [ ] _Big Red of Meadow Stable_ by William Mark (1975) 44. [ ] _The Bill James Historical Abstract_ by Bill James (1985) 45. [ ] _End Zone_ by Don Delillo (1972) 46. [ ] _Foul! The Connie Hawkins Story_ by David Wolf (1972) 47. [x] **_Shoeless Joe_** by W. P. Kinsella (1982) 48. [x] **_Into Thin Air_** by Jon Krakauer (1997) 49. [ ] _Eight Men Out_ by Eliot Asinof (1963) 50. [ ] _Baseball's Greatest Experiment_ by Jules Tygiel (1983) 51. [ ] _Laughing in the Hills_ by Bill Barich (1980) 52. [ ] _Dollar Sign on the Muscle_ by Kevin Kerrane (1984) 53. [ ] _The Bronx Zoo_ by Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenback (1979) 54. [ ] _The Professional_ by W. C. Heinz (1958) 55. [ ] _The Baseball Encyclopedia_ by Macmillan Publishers (1969) 56. [ ] _A Savage Business_ by Richard Hoffer (1998) 57. [x] _**The Glory of Their Times**_ by Lawrence Ritter (1966) 58. [ ] _The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball_ ed. by John Thorn (1999) 59. [ ] _Among the Thugs_ by Bill Buford (1991) 60. [ ] _Lords of the Realm_ by John Holyar (1994) 61. [ ] _The Universal Baseball Association, Inc._ by Robert Coover (1968) 62. [ ] _Days of Grace_ by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad (1993) 63. [ ] _Out of Their League_ by Dave Meggysy (1978) 64. [ ] _Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf_ by John Updike (1996) 65. [ ] _In These Girls, Hope is Muscle_ by Madeleine Blais (1995) 66. [ ] _They Call Me Coach_ by John Wooden with Jack Tobin (1972) 67. [ ] _Cosell_ by Howard Cosell (1973) 68. [ ] _Down the Fairway_ by Bobby Jones and O. B. Keeler (1927) 69. [ ] _Big Game, Small World_ by Alexander Wolfe (2002) 70. [ ] _The Last Shot_ by Darcy Frey (1999) 71. [ ] _Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder_ by Arnold Scwarzenegger and Kent Hall (1977) 72. [ ] _Out of the Bunker and Into the Trees_ by Rex Lardner (1960) 73. [ ] _The Fight_ by Norman Mailer (1975) 74. [ ] _Only the Ball Was White_ by Robert Peterson (1970) 75. [ ] _Harvey Penick's Little Red Book_ by Harvey Penick and Bud Shrake (1992) 76. [ ] _Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George?_ by Joe Jares (1974) 77. [ ] _Annapurna_ by Maurice Herzog (1951) 78. [ ] _The Great American Novel_ by Philip Roth (1973) 79. [ ] _Soccer in the Sun and Shadow_ by Eduardo Galeano (1998) 80. [ ] _The Story of American Golf_ by Herbert Warren Wind (1948) 81. [ ] _Inside Edge_ by Christine Brennen (1996) 82. [ ] _Farewell to Sport_ Paul Galico (1938) 83. [ ] _Muhammed Ali: His Life and Times_ by Thomas Hauser (1991) 84. [ ] _Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?_ by Jimmy Breslin (1963) 85. [ ] _The Complete Book of Running_ by James Fixx (1977) 86. [ ] _The Science of Hitting_ by Ted Williams and John Underwood (1970) 87. [ ] _Only a Game_ by Robert Daley (1967) 88. [ ] _The Joy of Sports_ by Michael Novak (1976) 89. [ ] _The Lords of the Rings_ by Vyv Sumson and Andrew Jennings (1992) 90. [ ] _Road Swing_ by Steve Rushin (1998) 91. [ ] _Golf in the Kingdom_ by Michael Murphy (1972) 92. [ ] _Game Misconduct_ by Russ Conway (1995) 93. [x] **_No Cheering in the Press Box_** by Jerome Holtzman (1973) 94. [ ] _Beer and Circus_ by Murray Spurber (2000) 95. [ ] _The Harder They Fall_ by Budd Schulberg (1947) 96. [ ] _The Tumalt and the Shouting_ by Grantland Rice (1954) 97. [ ] _Sports World_ by Robert Lipsyte (1975) 98. [ ] _The Bingo Lung Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings_ by William Brashler (1973) 99. [ ] _The Miracle of Castel di Sangro_ by Joe McGuiness (1999) 100. [ ] _Little Girls in Pretty Boxes_ by Joan Ryan (1995)