{"id":11195,"count":75,"description":"Games were once things played in parlours or in fields among friends in their leisure time.\u00a0 Now some sports are among the biggest, or at least most visible, businesses in the world and we have interviews recommending books on every aspect of sport.\r\n\r\nIf some sports are bigger is some countries than football (soccer), none is more global.\u00a0 Sports journalist Rob Hughes writes about why football is about so much more than football<\/a>.\u00a0 Comedian and football fan David Baddiel chooses his best five books on football<\/a>.\u00a0 And Steve Bloomfield chooses his best on world football<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 David Cousins chooses his best books on football book for kids and young adults<\/a>.\r\n\r\nMoving to the US, where \u201csoccer\u201d is only a minor sport, Rick Telander chooses his best books on American football<\/a>.\u00a0 Joe Posnanski and John Thorn<\/a> both choose their best books on Baseball. And Michael Carlson chooses his best baseball novels<\/a>.\u00a0 Bruce Dowbiggin chooses his on ice hockey<\/a>.\r\n\r\nElsewhere, among others, champion equestrian Mary King chooses her best books on the equestrian life<\/a>, and Daniel Norcross chooses his best books on cricket<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOn more general themes, Debanijan Chakraborti talks about sportsmanship and cheating<\/a>. And Tami Grey-Thompson talks about the spirit of sport<\/a>.\u00a0 Bill Cole addresses sports psychology<\/a> and David Papineau chooses his best books on philosophy and sport<\/a>.\r\n\r\nBest Running Books<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/sports-games-and-hobbies\/","name":"Sports, Games & Hobbies","slug":"sports-games-and-hobbies","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11195"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11195"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}