Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of 2016

Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

Playing through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town

You Negotiate Like a Girl: Reflections on a Career in the National Football League

This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love

Champion of the World

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape

Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town

Champion of the World

Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White

You Negotiate Like a Girl: Reflections on a Career in the National Football League

I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies: Inside the Game We All Love

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White

The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba

Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics