What's a good sports book I can read over the summer?

Question

I am looking for a good, fun to read sports book Perferebly about baseball.

Answer 1

"Slo-Mo" by Rick Reilly
It's funny and has some very sarcastic sport sploofs that are interesting to read.

Growing up in a bizarre cave-dwelling cult in Colorado, seven-foot, eight-inch Marice "Slo-Mo" Finsternick knows nothing about the NBA- that is until the day he is discovered and becomes the hottest sports icon in the country. Slo-Mo is a genius player with a patented thrity foot hook shot who eventualy begins to move away from this kind, truthful, polite and self-effacing ways and gradually learns to behave like a famous athlete.

Answer 2

"Voices of The Game" by Curt Smith.
It's a chronicle of Baseball Radio & Television Broadcasting from 1921 to the present (the edition I own goes to 1992.)

Answer 3

For non-fiction look here:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/features/2002/top_sports_books/4/

For fiction try Vision Qwest by Terry Davis (wrestling).

Answer 4

There are a lot of new books out about Mickey Mantle. He was a hero of mine when I was a kid. Pax- C