The Sports Pages

10 best books like The Sports Pages (Jon Scieszka): The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, The Big Field, Strike Three, You're Dead, The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game, Change-up: Mystery at the World Series, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World, Baseball Great, Game Changers, The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life, High Line

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

Author	David Epstein
ISBN	1591845114

Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. 

In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance...

The Big Field

Author	Mike Lupica
ISBN	0399246258

For Hutch, shortstop has always been home. It's where his father once played professionally, before injuries relegated him to watching games on TV instead of playing them. And it's where Hutch himself has always played and starred. Until now. The arrival of Darryl 'D-Will' Williams, the top shortstop...

Strike Three, You're Dead

Author	Josh Berk
ISBN	0375970088

An Edgar Award Finalist

Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's "the worst there ever was.") But he'd make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies...

The Rivalry: Mystery at the Army-Navy Game

Author	John Feinstein
ISBN	0375865705

"New York Times" bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein investigates a covert op at the Army-Navy football game in this exciting sports mystery.
The Black Knights of Army and the Midshipmen of Navy have met on the football field since 1890, and it's a rivalry like no other, filled with tradition....

Change-up: Mystery at the World Series

Author	John Feinstein
ISBN	0375856366

"New York Times" bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein takes readers behind the scenes at the World Series in this exciting baseball mystery.
When teen sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the World Series, the talk of the tournament is Norbert Doyle--a late call-up for...

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World

Author	Amy Reed
ISBN	1481481762

Billy Sloat and Lydia Lemon don’t have much in common, unless you count growing up on the same (wrong) side of the tracks, the lack of a mother, and a persistent loneliness that has inspired creative coping mechanisms.

When the lives of these two loners are thrust together, Lydia’s cynicism...

Baseball Great

Author	Tim Green
ISBN	0061626864

Josh feels like he's starting to make it big! Jaden, the school reporter, says he's going to take the baseball team to number one. Then his dad pulls him off the field and signs him up with Coach Rocky Valentine's youth championship team, the Titans. He says Josh has what it takes to be a baseball great—and...

Game Changers

Author	Mike Lupica
ISBN	0545381827

Ben McBain is every football team's dream player. He's a jack-of-all-trades guy that can handle almost any position. When the game is on the line, Ben's number is the one being called for the final play. But Ben wants to be the starting quarterback and the one thing standing in his way is the coach's son.

Shawn...

The Matheny Manifesto: A Young Manager's Old-School Views on Success in Sports and Life

Author

Mike Matheny

 “Nothing worth doing right is easy.”
–Mike Matheny
 
   Mike Matheny was just forty-one, without professional managerial experience and looking for a next step after a successful career as a Major League catcher, when he succeeded the legendary Tony La Russa as manager...

High Line

Author	T.A. Chase
ISBN	1605043893

Will giving him the green flag lead to love or heartache?

The Love of Sports Series, Book 2

CJ Lamont is at the top of the racing world but his winning record is based on a carefully constructed lie. His world falls apart when his ex-wife reveals the truth. As he hits rock bottom, rescue...