Here’s an interesting list: All Sports Book Reviews asked more than 150 sportswriters to name the books they really love–not what books they think are the best. Just their all-time favorites.

With a sample size that large, of course the list is long—some 300 titles—categorized according to sport. Updike’s celebrated Hub Fan Bids Kid Adieu didn’t make the list, but his essays on golf did. Golf Dreams was one of seven favorites that sportswriters cited for links reading.

Other literary writers who turned up on this list include George Plimpton (Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last String Quarterback; Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring; The Curious Case of Sidd Finch), Pat Conroy (My Losing Season), Norman Mailer (The Fight), Joyce Carol Oates (On Boxing), and, of course, Richard Ford (The Sportswriter).