Bobby Moore: The Man in Full is Biography of the Year
Thirty-One Nil is best Football Book
Cricket Book award goes to Wounded Tiger
Gareth Thomas's Proud is Autobiography of the Year
Gareth Thomas, Matt Dickinson, James Montague, Richard Parks, Peter Oborne, Alastair Down, Herbie Sykes, Bill Jones and Anna Krien were recognised for their outstanding contributions to sports literature at the 2015 British Sports Book Awards, sponsored by pen makers Cross.
They were the headline winners at a ceremony hosted by broadcaster and former cricketer Jonathan Agnew at Lord's cricket ground in London.
Thomas dedicated the award to Danny Jones, the Keighley Cougars rugby league player who last month died from cardiac arrest triggered by an undetected heart condition.
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Co-writer Calvin was himself a winner in 2014 with The Nowhere Men, his study of football's vast army of talent scouts, which was named as Football Book of the Year and won the public vote for overall Sports Book of the Year.
Publishers Yellow Jersey and Bloomsbury both scored two wins each.
The 2015 category winners all now go forward to a public online vote to determine the 2015 Cross Sports Book of the Year. More details...
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Dickinson's portrait of the 1966 World Cup winning captain was notable not only for the depth of research but for its lack of sentimentality, delving behind the golden boy image to discover the true identity of one of football's greatest icons, not with any malevolent intent but simply to find the real person behind the caricature.
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Cycling Book of the Year went to The Race Against the Stasi (Aurum Press), in which journalist and author Herbie Sykes tells the incredible story of Dieter Wiedemann, the East German cyclist and a poster boy for the athletic supremacists of the communist Eastern Bloc and the Peace Race, the cycling stage event dubbed the Tour de France of the East. Wiedeman, though, abhorred his country's ideology, fell in love with a girl from the other side of the Berlin Wall and, in defiance of the Stasi secret police who sought to control his life, defected to the West.
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Other awards went to Reuel Golden as editor of The Age of Innocence: Football in the 1970s (Taschen), a photographic history that won Illustrated Book of the Year, to Elizabeth Allen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion) and Jane Beaton (Kew Publicity), who co-ordinated the Publicity Campaign behind Roy Keane's The Second Half, and to Waterstones as Retailer of the Year.
Sir Michael Parkinson, the journalist and broadcaster, received a special award for his Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing.
Each of the individual category winners will be entered into an online public vote to determine the overall Cross British Sports Book of the Year.
The winners:
Autobiography Proud: My Autobiography
Biography Bobby Moore: The Man in Full
Football Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football's Outsiders
Rugby Beyond the Horizon: Extreme Adventures at the Edge of the World
Cricket Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan
Horse Racing Cheltenham et AL: The Best of Alastair Down
Cycling The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, The Iron Curtain and The Greatest Cycling Race on Earth (Aurum Press), by Herbie Sykes.
Outstanding Writing Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
New Writer Night Games: Sex, Power and a Journey into the Dark Heart of Sport
Illustrated The Age of Innocence. Football in the 1970s
Publicity Campaign Elizabeth Allen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion) and Jane Beaton (Kew Publicity) for Roy Keane: The Second Half
Retailer of the Year Waterstones
Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing Sir Michael Parkinson
More reading: The full shortlists for the Cross British Sports Book Awards
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