William Hill Sports Book of the Year

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The William Hill Sports Book of the Year award is a British literary award sponsored by the William Hill bookmaker . It has been awarded annually since 1989 and honors outstanding publications in the field of sport. The endowment is £ 30,000 (as of 2018), which may be shared in the event of multiple winners.

Award winners

  • 1989: True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny by Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson
  • 1990: Rough Ride: An Insight into Pro Cycling by Paul Kimmage
  • 1991: Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser
  • 1992: Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life by Nick Hornby
  • 1993: Endless Winter: The Inside Story of the Rugby Revolution by Stephen Jones
  • 1994: Football Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
  • 1995: A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein
  • 1996: Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing by Donald McRae
  • 1997: A Lot of Hard Yakka by Simon Hughes
  • 1998: Angry White Pajamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger
  • 1999: A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
  • 2000: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins
  • 2001: Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse by Laura Hillenbrand
  • 2002: In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by Donald McRae
  • 2003: Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football by Tom Bower
  • 2004: Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy: the Untold Story by Peter Oborne
  • 2005: My Father & Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach
  • 2006: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey Ward
  • 2007: Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton
  • 2008: Coming Back to Me by Marcus Trescothick
  • 2009: Harold Larwood by Duncan Hamilton
  • 2010: Beware of the Dog by Brian Moore
  • 2011: Robert Enke. An all too short life (English: A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke ) by Ronald Reng
  • 2012: The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
  • 2013: Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960s Racehorse Doping Gang by Jamie Reid
  • 2014: Night Games: A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport by Anna Krien
  • 2015: The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football by David Goldblatt
  • 2016: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
  • 2017: Tom Simpson : Bird on a Wire by Andy McGrath
  • 2018: The Lost Soul of Eamonn Magee by Paul Gibson and A Boy in the Water by Tom Gregory

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