NFL Books About Sports

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

i over do all my interests, way too much music. way too many books.

I;m starting to realize I won't live long enought to read all those books in waiting.

Big into Sword & Sorcery/Heroic Fantasy/Cosmic Doom, yep, have it all that is important

Love the great western authors, Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, Max Brand and Luke Short, have most their stuff.

Like Lee Childs Jack Reacher stories, have all of them with the next out later this month. Also like James Lee Burke and his detective Dave Robicheaux, have been movies about both characters,

When it comes to sports, have books about...

Tito Ortiz
Randy Courture
Jim Thorpe
Jim Brown
Bo Jackson
Fred Blassie
Marcus Dupree
Muhammad Ali
The Shiek

A great book on boxing, " The Boxing Register" a must have for anyone into boxing,

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Speaking of boxing, "A Flame of Pure Fire" is a fantastic book about Jack Dempsey and his era.

Book about the origins of the NWA (rasslin')

The Heels......rasslin' villians

SI,,,,,The College Football Book

A bunch of fiction like......

North Dallas 40
The Contender
Slick
End Zone

So what sports books have you read?

Do have a ton of books about....

The Middle East
Being black in America
Music

Tons of rasslin' and Blues magazines.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I thought this thread was gonna be about something completely different LoL

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

I thought this thread was gonna be about something completely different LoL

I can see why, that never crossed my mind.

(was titled Sports Books)

I used to play the ATS thing with a friend of a friend who had a friend, haha~~~~ Your basic 110 to win 100, and I did pretty good but the homework that takes to be successful, simply too much.

People think they can win with gut feelings, that will not work, you MUST know a lot of trends and shit,

The cat I was dealing with got popped so there went that,

Teams play a different roles in a season

Home fav
Home dog
Road fav
Road dog

How do teams fare in that role ATS?

Now who will take the time to find that info?

 

[Thrawn33]

Foley's "Have a Nice Day..." was a great autobiography

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Foley's "Have a Nice Day..." was a great autobiography

I have that book but have yet to read it.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

Friday Night Lights...

FYI - Odessa didn't even make the state championship like they did in the movies

 

[Sweater of AV]

Quite a few.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Another good one. @volodya You read this, fam?

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Friday Night Lights...

FYI - Odessa didn't even make the state championship like they did in the movies

I read that book a little afer the movie came out. Cool read.

Don't get any bigger than Texas HS football.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

There was a sprinter at Temple named Eulace Peacock, he had a 7-3 record vs the above mentioned Jesse Owens in the 100. Also a WR holder.

He was hurt in 1936 so no Olympics for him. He also had a win over Owens in the long jump. If he had been there in Berlinin 1936 we have a whole other story.

Peacock beating Owens

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/05/07/sports/07rhoden-1/07rhoden-1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

 

[Sweater of AV]

There was a sprinter at Temple named Eulace Peacock, he had a 7-3 record vs the above mentioned Jesse Owens in the 100. Also a WR holder.

He was hurt in 1936 so no Olympics for him. He also had a win over Owens in the long jump. If he had been there in Berlinin 1936 we have a whole other story.

Peacock beating Owens

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/05/07/sports/07rhoden-1/07rhoden-1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

It's discussed in the book. It's a much better read than Wikipedia etc.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

It's discussed in the book. It's a much better read than Wikipedia etc.

I do believe Peacock wins that Olympic 100m beating Owens again, being a 26-3 long jumper maybe the silver there, and a leg on that gold medal 4x1 team.

Was Ralph Metcalfe mentioned in the book, he also beat Owens a few times?

 

[Sweater of AV]

A few more.

 

[Sweater of AV]

I do believe Peacock wins that Olympic 100m beating Owens again, being a 26-3 long jumper maybe the silver there, and a leg on that gold medal 4x1 team.

Was Ralph Metcalfe mentioned in the book, he also beat Owens a few times?

Yes, Metcalfe is mentioned as well.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Yes, Metcalfe is mentioned as well.

Metcalfe won that Olympic 100m silver in both 32 and 36, he was also a multi time world record holder. He was out of Marquette.

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

A few more.

That book by Joe Hyams looks very interesting.

 

[Sweater of AV]

That book by Joe Hyams looks very interesting.

Yeah, it's a nice book to at least read through once. It's short but pretty interesting (and potentially useful).

 

[volodya]

Another good one. @volodya You read this, fam?

I didn't even know about it until this very moment. I wil read tho!

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Don Delillos END ZONE is a cool read, Taft Robinson the first black at a Texas college, a 9.3 sprinter and something totally alien to that world, but its far more than just that.

Wiki

The novel is divided into three sections. In the first, Gary Harkness, the narrator, meets Taft Robinson, Logos College's first Black football player as well as Major Staley, the teacher of his modern warfare class. This class sparks Gary's developing obsession with nuclear warfare. Gary begins dating Myna Corbett and an assistant coach commits suicide just as the crowning game of the season approaches.

The second section is solely a play-by-play retelling of the Big Game itself, where the main thematic content of the novel exists. DeLillo's disconnected, detached prose focuses the text on certain isolated images and dialogue throughout the game.

The third section surrounds the aftermath of the game as well as the impact of the plane-crash death of Logos College's founder. Gary, filled with ennui after these events, plays a complex war game with Major Staley; the novel's metaphor of football as warfare is challenged in the line "warfare is warfare." Taft Robinson admits that he has a morbid interest in the Holocaust which mirror's Gary's obsession. The novel ends with Gary being hospitalized for a mental breakdown, his future uncertain.

 

[PRIDEWASBETTER]

This is one of my favorite books that I own. Lots of good stuff year by year. Not necessarily relevant to the thread topic, but I don't read a lot of autobiographies or the like. I should.