Hi successhotline!
Here is the list of the 100 top sports books of all time with the
initial year of publication. This list is from the December 16, 2002
issue of Sports Illustrated. You may also read a short review of each
book at the following link:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/features/2002/top_sports_books/1/
The Sweet Science by A.J. Liebling (1956)
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn (1971)
Ball Four by Jim Bouton (1970)
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (1990)
You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner (1914)
A Season on the Brink by John Feinstein (1986)
Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins (1972)
Paper Lion by George Plimpton (1965)
The Game by Ken Dryden (1983)
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby (1991)
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (1976)
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)
Loose Balls by Terry Pluto (1990)
Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (1956)
Heaven Is a Playground by Rick Telander (1976)
Levels of the Game by John McPhee (1969)
The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam (1981)
The Summer Game by Roger Angell (1972)
The Long Season by Jim Brosnan (1960)
Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap (1968)
Everybody's All-American by Frank Deford (1981)
Fat City by Leonard Gardner (1969)
The City Game by Pete Axthelm (1970)
The Natural by Bernard Malamud (1952)
North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent (1973)
When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss (1999)
Babe: The Legend Comes to Life by Robert Creamer (1974)
The Golf Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse (1973)
About Three Bricks Shy of a Load by Roy Blount Jr. (1974)
A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley (1968)
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer (2000)
The Game They Played by Stanley Cohen (1977)
Veeck as in Wreck by Bill Veeck and Ed Linn (1962)
Ben Hogan's Five Lessons by Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind (1957)
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
Beyond a Boundary by C.L.R. James (1963)
A False Spring by Pat Jordan (1975)
Life on the Run by Bill Bradley (1976)
The Red Smith Reader by Red Smith (1982)
An Outside Chance: Essays on Sport by Thomas McGuane (1980)
The Unforgettable Season by Gordon H. Fleming (1981)
The Celebrant by Eric Rolfe Greenberg (1983)
Big Red of Meadow Stable by William Nack (1975)
The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James (1985)
End Zone by Don DeLillo (1972)
Foul! The Connie Hawkins Story by David Wolf (1972)
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella (1982)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1997)
Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof (1963)
Baseball's Great Experiment by Jules Tygiel (1983)
Laughing in the Hills by Bill Barich (1980)
Dollar Sign on the Muscle by Kevin Kerrane (1984)
The Bronx Zoo by Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock (1979)
The Professional by W.C. Heinz (1958)
The Baseball Encyclopedia by MacMillan (Publisher) (1969)
A Savage Business by Richard Hoffer (1998)
The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter (1966)
The Complete Armchair Book of Baseball Edited by John Thorn (1999)
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford (1991)
Lords of the Realm by John Helyar (1994)
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. by Robert Coover(1968)
Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe with Arnold Rampersad (1993)
Out of Their League by Dave Meggyesy (1970)
Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf by John Updike (1996)
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais (1995)
They Call Me Coach by John Wooden with Jack Tobin (1972)
Cosell by Howard Cosell (1973)
Down the Fairway by Bobby Jones and O.B. Keeler (1927)
Big Game, Small World by Alexander Wolff (2002)
The Last Shot by Darcy Frey (1994)
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Douglas Kent Hall (1977)
Out of the Bunker and Into the Trees by Rex Lardner (1960)
The Fight by Norman Mailer (1975)
Only the Ball Was White by Robert Peterson (1970)
Harvey Penick's Little Red Book by Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake (1992)
Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George? by Joe Jares (1974)
Annapurna by Maurice Herzog (1951)
The Great American Novel by Philip Roth (1973)
Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano (1998)
The Story of American Golf by Herbert Warren Wind (1948)
Inside Edge by Christine Brennan (1996)
Farewell to Sport by Paul Gallico (1938)
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser (1991)
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin (1963)
The Complete Book of Running by James Fixx (1977)
The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams And John Underwood(1970)
Only a Game by Robert Daley (1967)
The Joy of Sports by Michael Novak (1976)
The Lords of the Rings by Vyv Simson and Andrew Jennings (1992)
Road Swing by Steve Rushin (1998)
Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy (1972)
Game Misconduct by Russ Conway (1995)
No Cheering in the Press Box by Jerome Holtzman (1973)
Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber (2000)
The Harder They Fall by Budd Schulberg (1947)
The Tumult and the Shouting by Grantland Rice (1954)
SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte (1975)
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings by William Brashler (1973)
The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss (1999)
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes by Joan Ryan (1995
Source:
Sport Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/features/2002/top_sports_books/1/
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Additional information that may interest you:
?Is "Seabiscuit" the book, written by Laura Hillenbrand in 2001, the
best-selling sports book of all-time??
?The answer is complicated. Sports Illustrated in its December, 16,
2002, article titled "The Top 100 Sports Books of All Time," called
its number-six entry, John Feinstein's "Season on the Brink: A Year
with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers," (1986), "the best-selling
sports book of all time." The World Golf Hall of Fame, in St.
Augustine, Fla., dubbed "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book," (1992),
written with Bud Shrake, "the best-selling sports book in history."
Meanwhile, sports journalist Jason Levin notes that Jim Bouton's "Ball
Four," (1970) has been in print for over 30 years. Indeed,
Massachusetts-based Berkshire Publishing calls it ? all together now ?
"the best-selling sports book of all time."
(..)
Seabiscuit
?Hillenbrand's editor, Random House Vice President and Editorial
Director Jonathan Karp told SportsLetter there are "approximately 2.5
million copies (paperback and hard-cover) in print," but he noted that
sales figures are unavailable.?
?As for "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book", Simon & Schuster publicity
director Victoria Meyer says there are "over 1.5 million of the
hardcover in print, and just under 200,000 of the trade paperback."
?Simon & Schuster also published "Season on the Brink", but Meyer told
SportsLetter, "Unfortunately, our records do not go that far back. I
can't get the in-print figures."
?Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who now owns the rights
to "Ball Four" and self-publishes the current edition via Bulldog
Publishing, told SportsLetter that the various editions of "Ball Four"
? there have been four hard-cover and several paperback editions, ?
have sold "several million copies." But because three companies that
published the book no longer exist, Bouton says it is impossible to
determine exact numbers.?
"Seabiscuit" is the reigning champ for the sports book with the
longest stay on the New York Times best-seller list. The hard-cover
edition spent 30 weeks on the list; the paperback has been there 69
weeks.?
?Penick's book spent 55 weeks on the list, while Feinstein's two
editions lasted a combined 31 weeks. "Ball Four" was on the list for
25 weeks.?
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
http://www.aafla.org/10ap/SportsLetter-14-2/SLhome.html
Search criteria:
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I hope you find this helpful!
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
Clarification of Answer by
bobbie7-ga
on
15 Jan 2004 13:42 PST
Dear successhotline,
I'm sorry that there was a misunderstanding with my clarification
request which led me to believe that my findings would be
satisfactory. I don't think that there is a list of best selling
sports books of all time available.
In my answer I included additional information that illustrates that
these numbers may be in fact difficult if not impossible to obtain.
Here is a copy of that information:
Seabiscuit
?Hillenbrand's editor, Random House Vice President and Editorial
Director Jonathan Karp told SportsLetter there are "approximately 2.5
million copies (paperback and hard-cover) in print," but he noted that
sales figures are unavailable.?
?As for "Harvey Penick's Little Red Book", Simon & Schuster publicity
director Victoria Meyer says there are "over 1.5 million of the
hardcover in print, and just under 200,000 of the trade paperback."
?Simon & Schuster also published "Season on the Brink", but Meyer told
SportsLetter, "Unfortunately, our records do not go that far back. I
can't get the in-print figures."
?Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who now owns the rights
to "Ball Four" and self-publishes the current edition via Bulldog
Publishing, told SportsLetter that the various editions of "Ball Four"
? there have been four hard-cover and several paperback editions, ?
have sold "several million copies." But because three companies that
published the book no longer exist, Bouton says it is impossible to
determine exact numbers.?
"Seabiscuit" is the reigning champ for the sports book with the
longest stay on the New York Times best-seller list. The hard-cover
edition spent 30 weeks on the list; the paperback has been there 69
weeks.?
?Penick's book spent 55 weeks on the list, while Feinstein's two
editions lasted a combined 31 weeks. "Ball Four" was on the list for
25 weeks.?
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
http://www.aafla.org/10ap/SportsLetter-14-2/SLhome.html
If you wish, I can ask the editors to remove my answer. Please let me
know how to proceed.
Sincerely,
Bobbie7
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Clarification of Answer by
bobbie7-ga
on
16 Jan 2004 08:32 PST
"Ten Best Selling Books of All Time" as reported by Russell Ash in his
book The Top Ten of Everything (1994, DK Publishing Inc.).
These are:
The Bible, 6 billion copies;
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 800 million copies;
Noah Webster's The American Spelling Book, 100 million copies;
The Guinness Book of World Records, 80 million copies;
Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia, 40 million to 50 million copies;
The World Almanac, more than 40 million copies;
Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care, 39.2 million copies;
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 30 million copies;
Charles Sheldon's In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do, 28.5 million copies.
Industry Week, July 5, 1999, by Sal Marino
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1121/13_248/55109149/p1/article.jhtml
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