In fact, sports autobiographies had gotten a new lease on life exactly 10 years before Bouton, when Jim Brosnan, a pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, wrote "The Long Season" ...

David Foster Wallace's 1994 essay on the inherent disappointment of sports memoirs, "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," is the definitive document on how athlete autobiographies seldom penetrate ...

Sports fans have one request regarding such autobiographies: The athletes must be open and honest. Nobody wants to read something resembling a press release. There's no point.

And for those who didn't, his autobiography, The Greatest: My Own Story, is the best medium through which they can learn of his inspiring tale. While you are at it, here are five more moving and ...

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography Playing it My Way: My Autobiography is the latest to have joined the elite club of sports autobiographies, which made news for offering an ...

Keane: The Autobiography by Roy Keane with Eamon Dunphy, 2002 Mistaking brusqueness for candour and acerbity for sincerity, Roy Keane portrayed himself as a joyless martinet for whom no one’s ...

SI.com: Pete Sampras released his own autobiography last year. ... Jon Wertheim is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and has been part of the full-time SI writing staff since 1997, ...

In his forthcoming book, The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance, sustained peak author Tom Brady achieves the feat of shoving 350 sustained peak clichés into a ...

Billy Walters’ autobiography, “Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk,” is set to publish this summer, including details of his relationship with golfer Phil Mickelson.

And then there was the exceptional autobiography I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story by Ravichandran Ashwin, co-authored by Sidharth Monga.. Another notable work was wrestler Sakshi Malik ...