Successfully Dating recommends sport books that will help
you build an instructional and fun book library. Books also have great display value, showing
off your wide-ranging interest in a variety of subjects by the
books you have around your home.
Moneyball - I wrote this book because I fell in love with
a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued
professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had
been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned
themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major
League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had
good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with.
It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the
poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many
games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the
funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since
Liar's Poker. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the
Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret
of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the
front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even
in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these
possibilities—his intimate and original portraits of big league
ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission—but the real
jackpot is a cache of numbers—numbers!—collected over the years by
a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software
engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and
physics professors.
Handicapping 101 - Daily Racing Form handicapper Brad Free
has written a primer that is set squarely in the new world of
21st-century handicapping, where new exotic bets dominate the $15
billion annual wagering handle and new training methods and racing
schedules have transformed the game. Free walks new and old
players through the enduring basics of speed, pace, class, and
condition, with dozens of recent race examples and interviews with
leading trainers and jockeys, then also explains each of the new
wagers available to the modern fan. Are racehorses predictable?
What are the key factors and where can they be found? Is it really
possible to win at the races? Free's resounding answer is
yes-horseplayers can win! He explains that by learning how to read
and interpret the past performances, and applying their own
analysis and observations, fans can not only cash more tickets but
also gain a deeper understanding and enjoyment of how racing
really works.
How Soccer Explains the World - The global power of soccer
might be a little hard for Americans, living in a country that
views the game with the same skepticism used for the metric system
and the threat of killer bees, to grasp fully. But in Europe,
South America, and elsewhere, soccer is not merely a pastime but
often an expression of the social, economic, political, and racial
composition of the communities that host both the teams and their
throngs of enthusiastic fans. New Republic editor Franklin Foer, a
lifelong devotee of soccer dating from his own inept youth playing
days to an adulthood of obsessive fandom, examines soccer's role
in various cultures as a means of examining the reach of
globalization. Foer's approach is long on soccer reportage,
providing extensive history and fascinating interviews on the
Rangers-Celtic rivalry and the inner workings of AC Milan, and
light on direct discussion of issues like world trade and the
exportation of Western culture.
Zen Golf - Vijay Singh, Masters and PGA Champion, says,
"ZEN GOLF is the best book there is for connecting golf and the
mind together. It's for everyone, and you're going to enjoy it. I
keep it in my golf bag and take it with me everywhere." Charles
Howell III says, "The techniques in ZEN GOLF for working with
negative thoughts are better than any other psychological
approach." In chapters such as "Never Keep More Than a Hundred
Thoughts in Your Mind During Your Swing", "Isn't Where You Have to
Play It From Punishment Enough?" and "How to Enjoy a Bad Round of
Golf", the Dr. Joe Parent, a PGA TOUR Instructor, guides golfers
with simple yet powerful techniques to prepare for, execute, and,
equally important, respond to the results of any golf shot.
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