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If you guys are interested, there's already a book on the Bulls last season. It's called Playing for Keeps
It's written by the great David Halberstrom. He got full access to following the team that year. It's not just the last season but also mini biography on most of the players and coaches, but mostly centered around Jordan.
The book is really good and would have been even better if Jordan didn't renege on his promise to sit down after the season 1-1 with Halberstrom.
BTW, the book is really great at showing how much the players HATED Krause and how hard it was for Jackson to try to balance the stars and keeping management out of the way, all while coaching that year on his own expiring contract. It has other great details, like how at the end Reinsdorff would negotiate with Jordan 1-1, no one else, no agents. They'd sit in a room and work it out on their own.
If anyone is looking to read more about Ty Cobb, read Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty and not the biography by Al Stump. Stump's biography is largely untrustworthy, which people have come to understand in light of better research.
Because of journalism
>A look at how Bonds was driven to use performance-enhancing drugs in part by jealousy over Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 1998 season. It was shortly thereafter that Bonds—who had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health food store—first began using steroids.
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Shadows-Steroids-Scandal-Professional/dp/1592402682
NEVER FORGET - the way he was used by the military for propaganda, how they burned his uniform and journal, how they lied about and covered up his death by friendly fire.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Men-Win-Glory-Odyssey/dp/030738604X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgU6SwuZJIY
Big ups to his brother for calling out the bullshit at his funeral.
Why they were so happy when NFL player Pat Tillman joined up and became a ranger. Also why they covered up his death being from friendly fire. Read Where Men Win Glory. It's a great book
As it regards history, you can't go wrong with trying to learn more about the 86 club. Jeff Pearlman's The Bad Guys Won is a great book to start.
Here's the official summary of his book being sold on Amazon:
>In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman’s journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death. https://www.amazon.com/Where-Men-Win-Glory-Odyssey/dp/030738604X
Why are you such a proudly ignorant asshole? The only reason these investigations fucking happened you ignorant shit was because the family was questioning the inconsistencies and because they didn't back down they exposed the real story. Seriously, did you know anything about this topic before coming into this thread?
You should read Bill Porter's book Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Heaven-Encounters-Chinese-Hermits/dp/1582435235
Most are members of a Buddhist or Daoist lineage that help support them. They also usually have some land they use for growing vegetables. They will go down and buy supplies from a village, too. Most 'hermits' live in networks where they support each other.
In case anyone is interested in the history of baseball's unwritten rules, this book is an excellent (and hilarious) breakdown. There are some great stories in here and it might help some folks understand where they came from.
As is often the case, his depictions of being a racist are interwoven with sweeping generalizations and lazy history.
He's had a couple of biographies come out recently that are quite good and tackle these topics.
My favorite is Terrible Beauty by Charles Leerhsen.
https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Their-Times-Baseball-Perennial/dp/0061994715
In the 1960s the author of this book went around and interviewed all the old time ball players and got their stories. He then transcribed and edited them in this book. One of my favorites.
There are two good sources for the "unwritten rules", the book The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca, which does go into the Ryan/Ventura fight, and the podcast Unwritten with Ron Darling and Jimmy Rollins.
If you haven’t read it, give Ali vs. Inoki: The Forgotten Fight That Inspired Mixed Martial Arts and Launched Sports Entertainment a read .
It’s a great recap of the chaotic mess that led up to that legendarily awful fight that sowed the seeds for modern pro wrestling and MMA.
Obviously there's spin, but that doc was pretty similar to playing for keeps - which is very well regarded:
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https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Keeps-Michael-Jordan-World/dp/0767904443
from that other guy
u/heretoshittalk would credit directly but on phone
There’s a great book about his story called, “Where Men Win Glory”. It goes deep into his anti-war stances but also sheds some light on just how shady and “unknown” his death truly was.
There’s a great book about his story called, “Where Men Win Glory”. It goes deep into his anti-war stances but also sheds some light on just how shady and “unknown” his death truly was.
Michael saved the NBA and made it into the juggernaut that it is today. Even the superstars at time, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were amazed by Jordan’s level of play. He had an entire brand built around him that is still around today. Air Jordans are still a top selling sneaker. There is a great book about Jordan’s influence: Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767904443/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_7PQYWZQX5A0AZFKNMCPK
Ali vs. Inoki is a very good book that delves into their match back in the day. A ;lot of wrasslin', boxing, and early mma discussed here. Link to Amazon page.
https://www.amazon.com/Ali-vs-Inoki-Forgotten-Entertainment/dp/1942952198
The whole book isn't about Cleveland, but Lawrence Ritter's The Glory Of Their Times is a series of interviews with dead-ball era baseball players, many years after their retirement in most cases. A few of the players interviewed were from Cleveland, and the way they describe the city in the late 19th and early 20th century is fascinating. Imagine E 55th being countryside. Great read.
https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Their-Times-Baseball-Perennial/dp/0061994715
Funny enough I just purchased a book about it a couple weeks back. Haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. It’s only 5 bucks on Amazon if you’re interested.
https://www.amazon.com/Ali-vs-Inoki-Forgotten-Entertainment/dp/1942952198
He is a legend. Met him a couple of times. Super cool guy. Read https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com/Ali-vs-Inoki-Forgotten-Entertainment/dp/1942952198&ved=2ahUKEwj9vNKApoT1AhWZjokEHb1QAU0QFnoECGcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw191WmoTNUbxuVmXcplxOvd by Josh Gross. While the book is about that fight, it serves as a kind of unofficial biography of LeBell.
Unfortunately, that’s just not accurate.
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451645791
This recent work does a much better job of getting at who Cobb was. He certainly wasn’t a “total piece of shit.”
The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061994715/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_TGrHk2QO4rggf
> this was 100% their goal in that essay that was released.
Yes. Jon Krakauer goes into this in his book, "Where Men Win Glory". We played right into their hands.
Ali vs Inoki is a quality book if you're looking to go back that far.
It's written by Josh Gross, someone who the UFC banned from getting media credentials since 2005.
If you’re into sports history, Josh Gross wrote a book on it. Gross is one of the most OG and best reporters in MMA and the book is fantastic. Amazon link.
Book: Game of Shadows
From the synopsis on Amazon:
>The book traces the career of Victor Conte, founder of the BALCO laboratory, an egomaniacal former rock musician and self-proclaimed nutritionist, who set out to corrupt sports by providing athletes with “designer” steroids that would be undetectable on “state-of-the-art” doping tests. Conte gave the undetectable drugs to 28 of the world’s greatest athletes—Olympians, NFL players and baseball stars, Bonds chief among them.
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>A separate narrative thread details the steroids use of Bonds, an immensely talented, moody player who turned to performance-enhancing drugs after Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set a new home run record in 1998. Through his personal trainer, Bonds gained access to BALCO drugs. All of the great athletes who visited BALCO benefited tremendously—Bonds broke McGwire’s record—but many had their careers disrupted after federal investigators raided BALCO and indicted Conte. The authors trace the course of the probe, and the baffling decision of federal prosecutors to protect the elite athletes who were involved.
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>Highlights of Game of Shadows include:
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>Barry Bonds
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>A look at how Bonds was driven to use performance-enhancing drugs in part by jealousy over Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 1998 season. It was shortly thereafter that Bonds—who had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health food store—first began using steroids.
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>How Bonds’s weight trainer, steroid dealer Greg Anderson, arranged to meet Victor Conte before the 2001 baseball season with...
I find that Buddhism,stoicism,cynicism, and Epicureanism play well together...different focuses, but not opposed.
In the book https://www.amazon.com/Road-Heaven-Encounters-Chinese-Hermits/dp/1582435235 my favorite quote from an old Taoist hermit is “the Buddhists probably meditate better than us, but I like the Tao- I use some things I’ve learned from monks”
A good Jordan book is Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767904443/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_f0diCbNMQCFV3
Two must read Sebastian Junger books are War and Tribe. Amazon has both in paperback.