I'd recommend the other WP Kinsella book, "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy". I liked it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345410246/103-3914158-6807853?v=glance

Any of the classic Peter Puck series, although the rules have certainly changed. 8-]
http://members.aol.com/boardwalk7/petepuck.html

Hey - are you seeing David today?

The Nick Hornby one - "Fever Pitch". "Fathers, Sons and Football" by Colin Schindler (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747232253/ref=pd_sr_ec_ir_b/202-5120128-8739040)
shows the differences between three generations of professional footballers all from the same family - Mike Summerbee, his dad and his son all played professional soccer and all had different experiences.

Haven't heard from him; I guess our wires got crossed.

i think the two you mentioned are dreadful books. hey, just my opinion. i'd say the sporting life (a real classic about a broken nose), fever pitch (which you've already read) and, my fav, an odd book by robert coover - hard to find - called "the universal baseball association -henry j. waugh owner." essays by roger angell too - "the summer game" - plus i got a copy of the red sox reader i could send you. the early bill lee stuff is beautiful, just beautiful.

I have that Sox reader, I think...maybe there are 137 Red Sox readers. I need to set out my sports book library as only you know I have read <i>Fever Pitch</i> and I should not send Steve in Manchester in the wrong direction. <i>Fever Pitch</i> was great in its presentation of an extreme relationship that I think is different from the extreme relationship between fans and North American sports.