Sports Books
- See: William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Increasingly, sports journalists have turned to long-form writing, producing popular books on a range of sporting topics, including biographies, history and investigations. In London, through the 1980s and 1990s, a shop on Charing Cross Road - the area known for its book shops - was entirely devoted to sport, although the growth of online book sales through websites such as Amazon eventually led to the closure of Sports Books.
This was not before, though, the establishment, through sponsorship from William Hill, the bookmakers, of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. This was first held in 1989, when Dan Topolski's book about one of the most controversial University Boat Races was declared the winner.
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