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Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember

By E.W. Swanton

The Birmingham City Miscellany

By Tony Matthews, Malcolm Page

"Radio Times" Book of Sporting Dates: Sporting Memories for Every Day of the Year

By Ian Morrison

Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography

By Usain Bolt

The Glory Game

By Hunter Davies

The Games by The Times: Great Britain's Finest Sporting Hour

By The Times

Bounce: The of Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice

By Matthew Syed

A Wee Nip at the 19th Hole

By Richard Mackenzie

Wisden at The Oval

By Jon Surtees

Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet

By Simon Lister

Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game

By Budd Schulberg

Moving the Goalposts: A History of Sport and Society in Britain since 1945

By Martin Polley

The Grudge: Two Nations, One Match, No Holds Barred

By Tom English

Soccernomics (2022 World Cup Edition): Why European Men and American Women Win and Billionaire Owners Are Destined to Lose

By Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

Golf Between Two Wars

By bernard darwin, Herbert Wind, Ben Crenshaw

The Sunday Times Sporting Century: 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History

By Alan English

Rebels for the Cause: The Alternative History of Arsenal Football Club

By Jon Spurling

On Boxing PB

By Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)

Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey

By Jack Cavanaugh

Glove Story: The Number 1 book for every goalkeeper, past and present.

Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches

By Simon Hughes

The Perfect Day: 40 Years of "Surfer Magazine"

By Sam George

Squash: A History of the Game

By James Zug, George Plimpton

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By Daniel James Brown

Games People Played: A Global History of Sport

By Wray Vamplew

Rugby's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over a century of rugby

By Griffiths, John

GREAT SPORTING ECCENTRICS

Cricketing Allsorts: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (and The Downright Weird)

By Jo Harman

Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023

By Stefan Szymanski, Tim Wigmore

Leap of Faith: The New Autobiography

By Frankie Dettori