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The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

15.09.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Losing Isn’t Everything”

On a recent business trip to Boston, about a 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive for me, I had time to listen to an audiobook and chose this one as it sou...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

14.09.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Marinovich”

This was one of those books that I wish I didn’t let sit in my TBR pile for so long. Former USC and Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich has ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

08.09.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Baddest Man”

This book grabbed my interest because of the author. Mark Kriegel wrote excellent biographies on two of my favorite childhood athletes, Joe ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

06.09.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Golf 100”

Having read many books over the years of “the greatest” whatever, I found this one a little different, mainly due to avoiding saying how one...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

02.09.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Death of a Childhood”

This was a different type of memoir to finish off the month of August. It covered one year of the author’s life - his 11th year. Here’s my r...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

28.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Bandana Express"

High school football teams are usually the subject of some of the best football books and this one is no exception. Here is my review of ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

25.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “It Happened!”

While I certainly knew about Jim Lampley before reading this book, I admit to having forgotten that he covered so many different sports befo...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

25.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “1960”

This book had been sitting in my Kindle Unlimited library for a while. When I won a brand new Kindle from my local library in their summer r...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

25.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Whiz Kids"

With summer winding down, I'm trying to catch up with copies of books sent to have reviews posted before the fall season of new publications...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

13.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Uncommon Favor"

It's not often I can post two reviews in two days, but I had enough time on my trip to Brooklyn for the basketball game between the Minnesot...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

12.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Can-Do Mindset”

As I always do when traveling to a sporting event, I try to read a book on the sport I am attending. This past Sunday, I went to my first ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

10.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Make Me Commissioner"

When I saw this book available for review prior to its release in September, I was intrigued. While I can't say I enjoyed all of Jane Leavy...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

08.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “A Big Mess in Texas”

Looking at upcoming books makes it easy to se that fall is approaching, meaning football season is getting close. This book, about a failed ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

05.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Iron in the Blood”

With the calendar turning to August, that means college football season will soon be upon us. To get ready for this season, I picked up a bo...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

01.08.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty”

Keeping up with my theme of reading a book about the team or sport I am attending, I read this book on the New York Yankees on a bus trip to...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

29.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Talking Baseball with Major League Stars"

Fairly short book resulting in a fairly short review - but packed with good information. It did have a little (very little) "Glory of Their...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

29.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Fight of His Life”

Having not picked up a boxing book in a while, I decided to request this one on Joe Louis. While there is boxing in it, this book is really ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

29.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Last Hockey Game”

It isn’t often I’ll find a good hockey book in the summer, but my local library had an e-version of this one. Between the title, the fact th...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

29.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "This is Panther Country"

It isn't often that when I read a book involving sports, the stories that are not about the game but that are about other parts of life are ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

15.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Black Noon"

This is one of the very few books I have purchased since launching this book review site, mainly because it was published just after I start...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

14.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Reversing the Curse"

Normally, I do not post reviews of books that are nearly 20 years old, but I picked this up on Kindle Unlimited for reading on a bus trip to...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

08.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Dark Squares"

Having posted about books on chess before, I decided to do another one on this fascinating memoir by one of the early contributors (who is...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

06.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Get Your Tokens Ready”

To my fellow American friends, I hope your Independence Day weekend has been safe and fun. And what would be more appropriate that reading a...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

02.07.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Ant"

Having been a fan of the Minnesota Timberwolves since their debut season of 1989-90, of course I wanted to read this book. Not only because...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

27.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Death of a Racehorse"

I used to follow horse racing more closely but the recent scandals, deaths of horses and general overall lack of enthusiasm about the sport ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

25.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “J.D.

As I have noted before, when I am riding on a bus or train to a sporting event, I like to have a book with me about that sport. I listened t...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

17.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Players' Coach"

Having read this book as part of a Goodreads challenge, I found this to be okay. There was a lot of name dropping by the author as well as ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

15.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Front Runner”

While I cannot say I am a big track and field fan, I do recognize the name Steve Prefontaine and knew that he is considered a legend in the ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

09.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Skipper"

Even though hockey and basketball are having their championship games currently, my to-do list is filled with baseball books. Therefore, wi...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

05.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “A Basebll Gaijin”

Just like the story of this book’s subject, Tony Barnette, my adventure with this book was interesting. The author was kind enough to send m...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

01.06.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Homestand”

Finishing up a great month of reading with a book about baseball in a small town that lost its minor league team but is still enjoying baseb...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

26.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Together We Roared”

Another bus ride to a game meant more reading time - in this case it was this book co-authored by a former caddie for Tiger Woods. Here is m...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

22.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Clouds Over the Goalpost”

Three books finished in three days - not bad considering that the bulk of this audiobook was heard on one trip to and from a baseball game. ...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

21.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "From Boxing Ring to Battlefield"

While I have always liked to be working on at least two books at the same time, lately I have been finishing the two current books around th...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

20.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Sir Lewis"

While I consider myself to be more of a NASCAR fan than F1, I am finding that books about the latter are much more interesting for reading t...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

14.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Pinch Hitting”

This is the second of the two books I finished over a rainy week - a very good baseball novel that was a Casey Award finalist. Here is my re...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

13.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Dark Side of the Diamond"

While the weather was better on Mother's Day (belated Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers or those who perform the duties of mothers) ther...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

06.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "After Jackie"

It's not often that I complete books on two consecutive days, but with rainy weather in my area and re-discovering audio books, it's possibl...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

05.05.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Out of the Darkness"

This book was one that while I received it before its publication before its 2024 publication date, I just never got around to reading it as...

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith

28.04.2025

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Summit"

Sticking with the mountain climbing theme, this is the second book that I have read or listened to about this deadly day on K2. This time t...

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The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books - Lance Smith - Books & Literature

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Losing Isn’t Everything”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Marinovich”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Baddest Man”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Golf 100”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Death of a Childhood”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Bandana Express"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “It Happened!”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “1960”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Whiz Kids"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Uncommon Favor"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Can-Do Mindset”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Make Me Commissioner"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “A Big Mess in Texas”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Iron in the Blood”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Talking Baseball with Major League Stars"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Fight of His Life”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Last Hockey Game”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "This is Panther Country"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Black Noon"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Reversing the Curse"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Dark Squares"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Get Your Tokens Ready”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Ant"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Death of a Racehorse"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “J.D.

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Players' Coach"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “The Front Runner”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Skipper"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “A Basebll Gaijin”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Homestand”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Together We Roared”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Clouds Over the Goalpost”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "From Boxing Ring to Battlefield"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Sir Lewis"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of “Pinch Hitting”

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Dark Side of the Diamond"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "After Jackie"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "Out of the Darkness"

The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: Review of "The Summit"

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