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Soccernomics is a similar book, but about soccer (football).
The Signal and the Noise, while not being exclusively about sports (there are chapters about baseball and poker though), applies statistics in a similar way to other real-life problems like voting, earthquakes, and financial crashes.
I pretty much only read non-fiction, so I'm all about books that are educational but also interesting :) I'm not sure what your educational background is, so depending on how interested you are in particular subjects, I have many recommendations.
Naked Statistics and Nate Silver's Book are both good!
Feeling Good is THE book on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
The Omnivore's Dilemma is good, as is Eating Animals (granted, Eating Animals is aimed at a particular type of eating)
Guns, Germs and Steel is very good.
I also very much enjoyed The Immortal Live of Henrietta Lacks, as well as Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman :)
edit to add: Chris Hadfield's Book which I haven't received yet but it's going to be amazing.
https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but-ebook/dp/B007V65R54
It was the title of Nate Silvers book which I am sure helped popularize the concept. I know it is used fairly frequently in statistics as well.