Why read The Best Game Ever?

Book cover of The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL

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This is the remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants - considered by many to be the greatest American football game ever played - from Mark Bowden, bestselling author of "Black Hawk Down". On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Best Game Ever as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Larry Olmsted

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I’m a big fan of bestselling author, journalist, and incredible researcher Mark Bowden, but this is easily his least well-known work. For those not up for the 1000+ pages of Guests of the Ayatollah or Killing Pablo (the basis for the Netflix series Narcos) or the staggering intensity of his true war tale Blackhawk Down, this is a more digestible choice. It simultaneously showcases three very different things about sports in America. First, how the NFL ascended to primacy using the new medium of television to surpass baseball and become the most popular sport. Secondly, how nationally televised…

From Larry's list on Sports Fans.