Games People Play:
Armstrong, Lance. It’s Not About the Bike. (796.6 ARM)
Champion cyclist Lance Armstrong describes his triumph over cancer.
Bissinger, H. G. Friday Night Lights: A Team, A Town, and A Dream. (796.33 BIS)
Examines the role of high school sports in America as seen through the story of a high school football season in Odessa, Texas.
Blais, Madeleine. In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle. (796.323 BLA)
Chronicles one basketball season of a girls' high school team in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Breashears, David. High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places. (796.5 BRE)
Filmmaker and mountaineer David Breshears answers through his personal experiences the question of "why climb?"
Brooke, Michael. Concrete Wave: A History of Skateboarding. (792.22 BRO)
An illustrated history of skateboarding, from 1959 through the 1990s, featuring interviews with some of the world's topskaters, and including true stories of the sport.
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. (812 BLE)
Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
Chaiton, Sam. Lazarus and the Hurricane. (364.15 CHA)
A remarkable true story begins in a Brooklyn ghetto. An illiterate black teenager, Lesra (Lazarus), wins the hearts of a group of canadians, bringing him to Toronto to help him with his education. While learning to read, Lesra finds a copy of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's The Sixteenth Round. It was a book destined to change Lesra's life forever, and the lives of his adopted family.
Chotzinoff, Robin. People Who Sweat. (613.7 CHO)
Robin Chotzinoff hits the road in search of people who pursue unusual sports and recreational activities, including spelunking, tree-climbing, surfing (a grandma who surfs!) and marathon running. You won't break a sweat reading this fun, funny and fast-paced ride through the weird world of sports.
Colton, Larry. Counting Coup. (796.323 COL)
Author Larry Colton spent a year on the Crow Reservation in Southern Montana, examining the lives of the girls on the Hardin High School basketball, who were from both Caucasian and Native American families. He becomes particularly fascinated with the team's star, Crow Indian Sharon LaForge, whose talent could be her escape from the poverty and alcoholism which plague her family.
Dowling, Colette. The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality. (305.33 DOW)
Drawing on extensive research in motor development, performance assessment, sports physiology, and endocrinology, Dowling presents an astonishing picture of the new physical woman. She creates a powerful argument that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves physically.
Feinstein, John. The Last Amateurs. (796 FEI)
A detailed account of a season of college basketball, full of insider's jargon, the drama of personal rivalries, the melodrama of hard fought contests.
Gammeland, Lene. Climbing High: A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy. (796.52 GAM)
Autobiography of a woman's triumph and survival during the 1996 Scott Fischer Mountain Madness expedition to Mount Everest that suffered a sudden storm, human error and eight deaths.
Hamm, Mia. Go for the Goal. (796.334 HAM)
Olympic and World Cup soccer champion Mia Hamm discusses her life, tracing her path to success on the field, and offers advice and tips to other girls who would like to follow in her footsteps.
Hawk, Tony. Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder. (796.22 HAW)
Details the life and career of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. Full of great information about becoming a professional skateboarder, with lots of action photos.
Heywood, Leslie. Pretty Good for a Girl. (921 HEY)
In this memoir of her life as a runner, Leslie Heywood explores why girls need and want to participate in the American dream of competition and individual achievement; it also reveals the obstacles they still face.
Hirsch, James. Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter. (364.5 HIR)
Hurricane recounts the harrowing, inspiring odyssey o f Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer wrongly convicted of three murders, from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment.
Joravsky, Ben. Hoop Dreams: A True Story of Hardship and Triumph. (PB WAL)
For nearly five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and -- whittled down to three hours -- it became the award-winning film Hoop Dreams. Now journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to light all the richness and subtlety of their stories, and the impact their aspirations had on themselves and their families. (Synopsis from Amazon).
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. (796.52 KRA)
The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
Monninger, Joseph. Home Waters: Fishing With an Old Friend. (636.75 MON)
The author shares the story of the road trip he took out west with his eleven-year-old Golden Retriever, Nellie, a nature adventure he decided to make after discovering lumps on his beloved pet and realizing that her time with him was coming to an end.
Prosek, James. Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship. (799.1 PRO)
A journal about fishing, the spirit of nature, and that one mentor in a young man's life who changes the way he looks at the world.
Rushin, Steve. Road Swing. (070.4 RUS)
Steve Rushin recounts the adventures he had as he spent seven months traveling to all of America's most popular sports shrines in this very funny memoir of road travel, sports, and American culture.
Ryan, Joan. Little Girls in Pretty Boxes. (796.44 RYA)
Investigates the destructive side of women's elite competition in gymnastics and figure-skating, exposing such problems as eating disorders, stunted growth, and debilitating injuries. Concludes that abusive coaches and intense pressure from parents are often to blame.