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Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport

Carl Hiaasen

After taking a momentous thirty-two year break from the sport of Golf, acclaimed novelist Carl Hiaasen is back on the green and doing what he can to make up for lost time. In The Downhill Lie Hiaasen provides readers with a side-splitting memoir about life, his father, and the myriad failures he has experienced behind the tee. This book brims with personality, family history, and of course, endless anecdotes from on and off the green which culminatewith Hiaasen's own jubilant recollections of when he and his father first played through. While it is tailored for hackers from every level of skill imaginable, this book is yet another great work from one of literature's best players.

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10 Great Sports Books

AbeBooks sports nut Richard D. shares his top ten favorite sports books:

1. King of the World: Muhammed Ali & the Rise of the American Hero, David Remnick
2. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger
3. The Glory Game, Hunter Davies
4. Fatty Batter, Michael Simkins
5. Manchester United Ruined My Life, Colin Schindler
6. Fever Pitch, Hick Hornby
7. Barca: A People's Passion, Jimmy Burns
8. Paper Lion, George Plimpton
9. Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand
10. Shoeless+Joe, WP Kinsella