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2 unusual facts about William Hill Sports Book of the Year


Mick Rathbone

Rathbone's autobiography, The Smell of Football, was longlisted for the 2011 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.

Ronald Reng

Reng's biography of the late German national goalkeeper Robert Enke, A Life too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke was voted William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2011.


Laura Hillenbrand

Hillenbrand's first book was the acclaimed Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001), a nonfiction account of the career of the great racehorse Seabiscuit, for which she won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2001.

Simon Wilde

Three of his books have been short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award: Ranji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990), Letting Rip: The Fast Bowling Threat from Lillee to Waqar (1994) and Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007).


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