Sporting Biographies - Recommendations

[Nom de ploom]

Rugby league is my passion so I'd recommend one of Andy Gregory, Barry Macdermot, keith seniors' or garry schofields biogs, no need to read all of them though.

dickie birds first biog is pretty good too.

Micahel Vaughans ashes biog is worth a read too, easy going and relevant

[coppice]

Most sports biographies are dreadfully written rubbish ;three superb exceptions are Richard Williams - The Death of Ayrton Senna, The Lost Generation by David Tremayne (re the tragedy of 70s GP drivers Tony Brise, Tom Pryce and Roger Williamson;I defy anybody to keep a dry eye when reading this)and Speed With Style by (journalist)Leon Mandel and former McLaren GP driver Peter Revson -not ghost written- they wrote alternative chapters and tragically Peter died at Kyalami the week the book was completed .

[Ruskie]

Born to Run - Chris Mcdougall
The Secret Footballer
The Secret Race - Tyler Hamilton
A life too Short - The Tradgedy of Robert Encke


All superb reads.

[Ardenconnel]

Brian Moore's "Beware of the Dog" was a brilliant book.

I'm very into rugby so understand not everyone would have the same level of interest, but nevertheless it is a very well written, honest yet often entertaining book.

[bloomen]

Maybe not formal sport, but anything by Mick Foley on wrestling is properly entertaining.

[silverthorn2151]

The 2 volumes of Dr Sid Watsons autobiography are really worth a read.

I picked them up for pence second hand via Amazon

"Life at the limit" and "Beyond the limit"

Learned a lot.