Alright. In the memoir category team... team whatever the heck the name was ... pick
The Game by Ken Dryden.
I never played hockey as a kid. Or ever, really. All I know about the game is what you can learn from watching it, and what you pick up from the talking heads who surround it. And those talking heads tend to say the same things over and over again. Ken Dryden brings something else. Here's a really unique critical mind, a really terrific writer, in a really unique situation: being on one of the best hockey teams ever.
The real strength of the book is the way that Dryden downplays the 'greatness' of that particular roster and that particular year, and makes it all about really small struggles and victories. You grow really attached to the characters on the team, you get a real detailed understanding of them. Not to mention all the other surrounding details - the social climate of Quebec at the time in the referendum era is really well described.