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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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