24 sports gambling books. Looking for recommendations

[uscmd]

This is a start......if you've read any of these, please let me know.


1. How Professional Gamblers Beat the Pro Football Pointspread: A Step-By-Step Textbook Guide (Plastic Comb)
by J. R. Miller 1997

2. You Can Bet On It!: Inside Secrets of Sports Betting from the Men Who Set the Line (Paperback)
by Larry Grossman 2004

3. Sharp Sports Betting (Paperback)
by Stanford Wong 2001

4. The Basics of Winning Sports Betting (Paperback)
by Avery Cardoza 2002

5. A Sure Thing?: Sports and Gambling (Sports Achievers Issues) by Jeff Savage (Library Binding - Jun 1997)


6. The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas by Chad Millman (Paperback - Mar 2002)

7 Everything You Need to Know About the Dangers of Sports Gambling (Need to Know Library) by Josh Wilker (Library Binding - Jun 2000

8 Beat the Sports Books: An Insider's Guide to Betting the NFL by Dan Gordon (Paperback - Aug 1, 2001)

9. The Complete Book of Sports Betting: A New, No-Nonsense Approach to Sports Gambling by Jack Moore (Paperback - April 1996)


10. Superbookie: Inside Las Vegas Sports Gambling (Hardcover)
by Art Manteris, Rick Talley 1991


11. The Analysis of Sports Forecasting - Modeling Parallels Between Sports Gambling and Financial by William S. Mallios (Hardcover - Dec 1, 1999)


12. John Patrick's Sports Handicapping by John Patrick (Paperback - Oct 15, 1995)


13. Computing against the odds: The beginner's guide to sports handicapping with a personal computer by Randall J Rutecki (Paperback - 1995)

14. Fixed Odds Sports Betting: Statistical Forecasting and Risk Management by Joseph Buchdahl (Paperback - Mar 2004.


15. Education of a Sports Bettor by Bob McCune (Plastic Comb - Mar 25, 2002)


16. Winning theories of sports handicapping: Football, basketball, baseball by Mort Olshan (Unknown Binding - 1973)


17. The Caesars Palace Book of Sports Betting by Bert Randolph Sugar (Paperback - Mar 15, 1992)


18. College Basketball: Wagering to Win by Larry R. Seidel (Paperback - Sep 30, 2005)


19. Anthology of Statistics in Sports (ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability) (ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability) by Jim Albert, Jay Bennett, and James J. Cochran (Paperback - April 27, 2005)


20. Money Mangement and Winning NFL Handicapping (Spiral-bound - 2000)


21. 1991 blackbook: Pro football handicapping and betting guide by Patrick J Duffy (Unknown Binding - 1991)


22. Winning Theories of Sports Handicapping by Bill Lee 1975


23. Sports betting: A computer expert's winning secrets for betting on baseball and football (Unknown Binding)
by Jim Jasper 1979
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[WildBill]

What are you hoping to learn? I have read just about all of them. If you are looking for real meaty stuff to improve your handicapping, maybe look at the Seidel and Gordon books. If you want to be entertained read "The Odds". Some of the others won't give you much of anything.

By all means get the McCune book and any others you can find by him. He did a bunch of classics that have been pared down greatly in latest editions since it was full of stuff that doesn't really apply anymore, talking about phone touts from the 70s and 80s for example. No one could teach you more than Bob McCune. He is very sharp in his analytics, but also very good about setting the reader straight about what sports betting is and isn't.

 

[Faceless]

I have couple of those:

12. John Patrick's Sports Handicapping by John Patrick (Paperback - Oct 15, 1995) Don't waste your money

17. The Caesars Palace Book of Sports Betting by Bert Randolph Sugar (Paperback - Mar 15, 1992) Just general things (for beginners), don't buy

6. The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas by Chad Millman (Paperback - Mar 2002). As WildBill wrote, for entertainment. Good book

For free:

1. http://www.bjmath.com/bjmath/thorp/tog.htm

2.Creating a Profitable Betting Strategy for Football by Using Statistical Modelling (Niko Marttinen) For soccer, but includes other important things also

http://www.ylikerroin.com/file/Complete.pdf

3. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=6112128&OS=6112128&RS=6112128