My Sports and Coaching Books of the Year

My Sports and Coaching Books of the Year. Notice the placing of the Wade Gilbert book – coaching is the foundation!

• Today We Die a Little!: The Inimitable Emil Zátopek, the Greatest Olympic Runner of All Time by Richard Askwith
• The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football by S.C. Gwynne
• The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers by Michael Leary
• The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan
• Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear by Paul Assaiante and James Zug
• Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition: An Introduction by Jia Yi Chow, Keith Davids, Chris Button and Ian Renshaw
• My Turn: A Life of Total Football by Johan Cruyff
• Coaching Better Every Season: A year-round system for athlete development and program success by Wade Gilbert