📚 Basketball

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The five-player game and its leagues — skill, style, and the culture that carried basketball from a gym in Massachusetts to the world.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject basketball in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
NBA : a History of Hoops	Jim Whiting	2015	36
The Sports Encyclopedia	Richard M. Cohen	1987	27
Wo zhe yi sheng	Earvin Johnson	1989	21
They call me coach	John R. Wooden	1750	13
The Punch	John Feinstein	2002	11
Basketball for dummies	Richard Phelps	1997	10
The city game	Pete Axthelm	1970	9
A season on the brink	John Feinstein	1986	8
Practical modern basketball	John R. Wooden	1966	7
Heaven is a playground	Rick Telander	1976	7
Basketball	Bill Van Gundy	2000	6
The Miracle of St. Anthony	Adrian Wojnarowski	2005	6
Go Big	Cory Cotton	2011	6
Basketball	Glenn Wilkes	1982	5
Basketball	Alexander Wolff	1991	5
Playing for keeps	David Halberstam	1999	5
When the game was ours	Bird, Larry	2009	5
Coaching basketball successfully	Morgan Wootten	1992	4
Fab Five	Mitch Albom	1993	4
The basketball coach's bible	Sidney Goldstein	1994	4
Basketball skills & drills	Jerry Krause	1999	4
Bird Watching	Bird, Larry	1999	4
The book of basketball	Bill Simmons	2009	4
The breaks of the game	David Halberstam	1981	3
Kareem	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	1990	3
Basketball on Paper	Dean Oliver	2003	3
Rapture	Nick Nurse	2020	3
Basketball, multiple offense and defense	Dean E. Smith	1982	2
Stuff! good players should know	Dick Devenzio	1983	2
NBA at 50	Nba	1996	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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