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The Book Sense Sports Literature Bestseller List

Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending June 6, 2006.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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The Book Sense Sports Literature Bestseller List
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1. |
Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, Balco, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports |
2. |
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager |
3. |
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup |
4. |
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization |
5. |
Ultramarathon Man |
6. |
It's Not About the Bike |
7. |
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster |
8. |
Chiwalking: The Five Mindful Steps for Lifelong Health and Energy |
9. |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
10. |
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke - North Carolina Basketball Rivalry |
11. |
The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball |
12. |
Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four |
13. |
Baseball Between the Numbers |
14. |
Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe |
15. |
Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf |
16. |
The Education of a Coach |
17. |
Between a Rock and a Hard Place |
18. |
A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish |
19. |
It's Only a Game: Words of Wisdom From a Lifetime in Golf |
20. |
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod |
21. |
Still Life With Brook Trout |
22. |
The Only Game in Town: Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved |
23. |
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City |
24. |
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream |
25. |
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life |