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The William Hill Sports Book of the Year is an annual British sports literary award sponsored by bookmaker William Hill. The award is dedicated to rewarding excellence in sports writing and was first awarded in 1989. As of 2012, the prize for winning the award is £24,000. Commenting on the prize's prestige, the 2005 winner Gary Imlach said "although it is a sports book prize, it has the prestige and the commercial clout to lift the winning book out of the sport section". ==History== Paul Kimmage was the first author to win both the Irish (2011) and International awards (1990). In 2010, Duncan Hamilton, a winner twice in the previous three years, was again included in the shortlist, although on this occasion, when the award was announced on November 30 in London, the prize was won by Brian Moore, the former England rugby union international, for his autobiography, ''Beware of the Dog''. In 2011, there was a "surprise inclusion" to the shortlist of ''Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson'', a biography of quadriplegic Matt Hampson, by 1990 winner Paul Kimmage, despite it not being included on the longlist. The shortlist also included a book on bullfighting, ''Into The Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight'' by Alexander Fiske-Harrison, despite journalists including Fiske-Harrison himself arguing that bullfighting was not a sport, leading to the employment of security for the first time at the ceremony at Waterstones of Piccadilly. In the end the prize went to ''A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke'', about Robert Enke who committed suicide, by Ronald Reng. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Hill Sports Book of the Year」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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