Start with high-confidence sports photography books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Times Olympic Moments: 100 Epic Highlights From the History of the Summer Olympics
John Goodbody, The Times
Who Shot Sports
Gail Buckland
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century
David Halberstam, Glenn Stout
Ancestral Links
John Garrity
This Book Is All Elite: the Inside Story of All Elite Wrestling
Keith Elliot Greenberg, All Elite Wrestling
Skateboard Culture
Morgan Bouvant, Sébastien Carayol
Strong Like a Woman
Laken Litman
The World Atlas of Football Stadiums
John Gillard
I Heard There Were No Waves in New Jersey
Danny Dimauro, Johan Kugelberg
Courtside
Nathaniel Butler, Dave McMenamin
18 in America
Dylan Dethier
To the Nines
Anthony Pioppi
Survivor: Forged by Fire
Jeff Probst
Threads of Triumph
McKenzie Mitchell
There and Back
Jimmy Chin
Surf Tribe
Stephan Vanfleteren