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Nonfiction

Embody­ing Hebrew Cul­ture: Aes­thet­ics, Ath­let­ics, and Dance in the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Man­date Palestine

Nina S. Spiegel

Nonfiction

Hank Green­berg: The Hero of Heroes

John Rosen­gren

Nonfiction

Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soc­cer Dur­ing Europe’s Dark­est Hour

Simon Kuper

Nonfiction

The Mag­nif­i­cent Sea­sons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports His­to­ry and Uplift­ed a City and the Country

Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman

Nonfiction

God on the Start­ing Line: The Tri­umph of a Catholic School Run­ning Team and Its Jew­ish Coach

Marc Bloom

Nonfiction

Judais­m’s Encounter with Amer­i­can Sports

Jef­frey S. Gurock

Nonfiction

All Those Mornings..at the Post: The 20th Cen­tu­ry in Sports From Famed Wash­ing­ton Post Columnist

Shirley Povich

Nonfiction

Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players

Peter Ephross with Mar­tin Abramowitz

Children's

The Match­less Six: The Sto­ry of Canada’s First Wom­an’s Olympic Team

Ron Hotchkiss

Nonfiction

Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer’s Life

Ira Berkow

Nonfiction

Des­ig­nat­ed Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story

Ron Blomberg, As Told To Dan Schlossberg

Nonfiction

Jew­ish Jocks: An Unortho­dox Hall of Fame

Franklin Foer and Marc Tra­cy , eds.

Nonfiction

Road To Val­or: A True Sto­ry of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation

Aili and Andres McConnon

Nonfiction

Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship

Jack Kugel­mass, ed.

Nonfiction

Branch Rick­ey: Base­bal­l’s Fero­cious Gentleman

Lee Lowen­fish

Children's

You Nev­er Heard of Sandy Koufax?!

Jonas Win­ter; Adré Car­ril­ho, illus.

Nonfiction

Time-out: Sports Sto­ries as a Game Plan for Spir­i­tu­al Success

Dov Moshe Lipman

Nonfiction

Pass­ing Game: Ben­ny Fried­man and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Football

Mur­ray Greenberg

Nonfiction

The Echo­ing Green: The Untold Sto­ry of Bob­by Thom­son, Ralph Bran­ca and the Shot Heard Round the World

Joshua Prager

Nonfiction

Abel Kivi­at, Nation­al Cham­pi­on: Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Track and Field and the Melt­ing Pot

Alan S. Katchen