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    Nonfiction
    When Bas­ket­ball Was Jewish
    Dou­glas Stark
    Nonfiction
    Eat My Schwartz
    Geoff and Mitch Schwartz, with Seth Kaufman
    Nonfiction
    Max Baer and Bar­ney Ross: Jew­ish Heroes of Boxing
    Jef­frey Sussman
    Nonfiction
    On the Ori­gins of Sports
    Gary Bel­sky and Neil Fine
    Fiction
    Max Baer and the Star of David
    Jay Neuge­boren
    Nonfiction
    The Jew­ish Olympics: The His­to­ry of the Mac­cabi­ah Games
    Ron Kaplan
    Nonfiction
    Fanati­cus: Mis­chief and Mad­ness in the Mod­ern Sports Fan
    Jus­tine Gubar
    Nonfiction
    Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life
    Mort Zachter
    Nonfiction
    Called Out but Safe: A Base­ball Umpire’s Journey
    Al Clark & Dan Schlossberg
    Nonfiction
    Dolph Schayes and the Rise of Pro­fes­sion­al Basketball
    Dolph Grund­man
    Nonfiction
    From Brook­lyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty Track Coach Mel Rosen
    Craig Darch
    Children's
    Home­court: The True Sto­ry of the Best Bas­ket­ball Team You’ve Nev­er Heard Of
    Lar­ry Needle
    Nonfiction
    The Box­er’s Sto­ry: Fight­ing for My Life in the Nazi Camps
    Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
    Nonfiction
    The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Rose­boro Turned Base­bal­l’s Ugli­est Brawl into a Sto­ry of For­give­ness and Redemption
    John Rosen­gren
    Nonfiction
    The Leg­end of Red Klotz: How Bas­ket­bal­l’s Loss Leader Won Over the World 14,000 Times
    Tim Kel­ly
    Children's
    Jew­ish Sports Stars: Ath­let­ic Heroes Past and Present
    David J. Goldman
    Nonfiction
    Kick and Run: Mem­oir with Soc­cer Ball
    Jonathan Wil­son
    Nonfiction
    The Lit­tle Book of Bas­ket­ball Law
    Melis­sa Alt­man Linsky
    Cookbook
    From Base­ball Mitts To Oven Mitts: A Moth­ers of Sons Cookbook
    Hol­lace Friedman
    Nonfiction
    The Vic­to­ry Season
    Robert Wein­traub
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