Top 7 Greatest Sports Books Ever Penned

Heaven Is a Playground: Rick Telander

‘Heaven Is a Playground’ is a 1976 sports classic written by the Rick Telander, who was a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.  Telander illustrates his observation on the street basketball game Culture in the Brooklyn, where he spent his summer of 1974. After the publication, the book set a trend among the game lovers and was ranked 5th in a 2002 Sports Illustrated list of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.

The Miracle of Castel di Sangro: of Joe McGinniss

‘The Miracle of Castel di Sangro’ a master piece that published in 1998 counts on the experience of Joe McGinniss, who spent summer in the Castel di Sangro to cover the Italian passion for the game of football. The book entirely accounts McGinniss season spent in the respective village and story of its soccer team that reached the second-highest-ranking professional league in the country.

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