What's some good literature that deals with fitness and/or

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2016-05-17 19:15:31 Post No. 8050451
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What's some good literature that deals with fitness and/or sports? All I'm aware of is pic related and Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.

Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:20:57 Post No.8050474
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:20:57 Post No.8050474 [Report]

>>8050451
infinite jest

Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:24:35 Post No.8050492
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:24:35 Post No.8050492 [Report]

>>8050451
Donald Ray Pollock's story "Discipline."

Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:26:06 Post No.8050497
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:26:06 Post No.8050497 [Report]

>>8050451
The great prose stylist Rippetoe's classic book Starting Strength.

Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:36:47 Post No.8050550
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:36:47 Post No.8050550 [Report]

>>8050451
Fat City by Leonard Gardner, it's hands down the best book ever concerning boxing. It's especially refreshing because it defies the trend of the past 30+ years, of boxing as a form of redemption/escape/bettering yourself.

Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:51:08 Post No.8050617
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 19:51:08 Post No.8050617 [Report]

>fiction
David James Duncan, The Brothers K
>nonfiction
Jim Bouton, Ball Four
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Izaac Walton, The Compleat Angler

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>IJ
and End Zone by DeLillo (inspiration for Eschaton)
also Wallace's tennis essays

Anonymous 2016-05-17 20:04:15 Post No.8050658
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 20:04:15 Post No.8050658 [Report]

>>8050617
He was asking for literature, not just books. Moneyball falls far short of literature, I don't know about the others.
Another book idea: Malmud's The Natural. Nothing like the movie.

Anonymous 2016-05-17 21:18:10 Post No.8050957
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Anonymous 2016-05-17 21:18:10 Post No.8050957 [Report]

Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover

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