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  1. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. {Dick Cramer}
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  2. Paul Auster _ The New York Trilogy

    For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.
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  3. James Patterson

    Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?
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  4. Simone Elkeles _ Wild Cards

    She's a Texan, born and raised. Football is in our blood.
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  5. Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool

    Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.
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  6. Sinclair Lewis _ Babbitt

    The game {baseball}was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."
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  7. Nick Hornby _ The Polysyllabic Spree

    Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.
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  8. Nick Hornby _ The Polysyllabic Spree

    Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.
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  9. Hunter S. Thompson _ Fear and Loathing on the

    The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1} A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2} A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends....
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  10. Michael Lewis _ Moneyball: The Art of Winning

    Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
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