What's some good literature that deals with fitness and/or sports? All I'm aware of is pic related and Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.
>>8050451
infinite jest
>>8050451
Donald Ray Pollock's story "Discipline."
>>8050451
The great prose stylist Rippetoe's classic book Starting Strength.
>>8050451
Fat City by Leonard Gardner, it's hands down the best book ever concerning boxing. It's especially refreshing because it defies the trend of the past 30+ years, of boxing as a form of redemption/escape/bettering yourself.
>fiction
David James Duncan, The Brothers K
>nonfiction
Jim Bouton, Ball Four
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Izaac Walton, The Compleat Angler
>>8050474
>IJ
and End Zone by DeLillo (inspiration for Eschaton)
also Wallace's tennis essays
>>8050617
He was asking for literature, not just books. Moneyball falls far short of literature, I don't know about the others.
Another book idea: Malmud's The Natural. Nothing like the movie.
Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover