Sports Books

Football

The Education of a Coach: Halberstam's only book on football presents a dazzling portrait of Bill Belichick and the unique abilities that make him one of the most successful coaches.  This is a book not just about Bill Belichick, but about leadership and success and, of course, football.

Basketball

The Breaks of the Game: This book focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions.

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made: A full measure of Michael Jordan's epic career and the forces in Jordan's life that have shaped him into history's greatest basketball player

Olympics

The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal:  A book about the dramatic and special world of amateur rowing and the competition to represent the US in the '84 Olympiad.

Baseball

Summer of  '49:A magnificent journey through the 1949 pennant race in which the Red Sox and the Yankees battled down to a one-game season.

October 1964:October 1964" is Halberstam's exciting new book about baseball -- this time about the last season of that Yankee dynasty. It is both sports and history, as well as  a fascinating account of an electrifying baseball championship against the background of profound social change.

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship:  A friendship of the four key players in a remarkable Boston Red Sox team, who stayed close for more than sixty years.  Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr.