Evan Davis

Book Review: The 100 Most Important Sporting Events in American History

The cover sells this book. There’s Jackie Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, bat in hand, changing America. It’s as simple, and monumental, as that.

Book Review: Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing

Write a book about a topic so “weird and wacky” that no one has addressed it before and voila , you have the reference title in your field. Williams, an Englishwoman, found her niche by describing activities “that may be less familiar to American readers.” This includes sports as popular outside the US as cricket and events as obscure to everyone outside the U.K. as the Cotswold Olimpicks.