Showtime
by Jeff Pearlman | 
The Sweet Science
by A. J. Liebling | 
How Soccer Explains the World
by Franklin Foer | 
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
by Eduardo Galeano | 
Heat
by Bill Buford | 
The Match
by Mark Frost | 
Friday Night Lights
by H. G. Bissinger | 
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
by Bill James | 
October 1964
by David Halberstam | 
Eight Men Out
by Eliot Asinof | 
Monsters
by Rich Cohen | 
American Triumvirate
by James Dodson | 
The Fight
by Norman Mailer | 
The Last Great Fight
by Joe Layden | 
56
by Kostya Kennedy | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll | 
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer |
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.