Sports

 

Listed below are selected novels which fall into this category. This list is not comprehensive; rather, it is a list of some of the more popular titles within this category.

 

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Author

Title

Baseball

Garrison Allen

Baseball Cat

James W. Bennett

Plunking Reggie Jackson

Michael Bishop

Brittle Innings

Jim Bouton

Strike Zone

Darryl Brock

If I Never Get Back

Ron Carlson

The Speed of Light

Mick Cochrane

Sport

Carl Deuker

High Heat
Painting the Black

Crabbe Evers

Tigers Burning

Mick Foley

Scooter

Steven Hayward

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

Charles Huston

Caught Stealing

Lee Irby

7,000 Clams

Jerry B. Jenkins

The Youngest Hero

Scott Johnson

Safe at Second

Tim Johnston

Never So Green

Nell Kincaid

A Compromising Passion

Kevin King

All The Stars Came Out That Night

W.P. Kinsella

Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa

Ron Koertge

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

Jennifer Anne Kogler

Ruby Tuesday

Paul Kropp

Running the Bases: Definitely Not a Book About Baseball

Scott Lasser

Battle Creek

Jose Latour

The Havana World Series

Michael Z. Lewin

Cutting Loose

Michael Lupica

Heat

Mike Lupica

Wild Pitch

David Menary

Terrier Town: Summer of ‘49

Howard Frank Mosher

Waiting for Teddy Williams

Walter Dean Myers

The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues

Robert B. Parker

Double Play

Robert Newton Peck

Extra Innings

Patrick Robinson

Slider

April Smith

Be The One

Troy Soos

Murder at Fenway Park
Murder at Wrigley Field

Les Standiford

Done Deal

Trisha R. Thomas

Roadrunner

C.W. Tooke

Ballpark Blues

Will Weaver

Hard Ball: A Billy Baggs Novel

Will Weaver

Striking Out

Mark Richard Zubro

An Echo of Death

 

  Basketball

James W. Bennett

Blue Star Rapture

Harlan Coben

Fade Away
One False Move

Carl Deuker

Night Hoops

K.J. Erickson

The Last Witness

John Feinstein

Last Shot

Jonathan Kellerman

Double Homicide: Boston

Mike Lupica

Too Far

Walter Dean Myers

Hoops

Matt de la Pena

Ball Don’t Lie

Janette Rallison

Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

Jon Ripslinger

How I Fell in Love and Learned to Shoot Free Throws

Alan Lawrence Sitomer

The Hoopster

Terry Trueman

Cruise Control

Paul Volponi

Black and White

Rich Wallace

Playing Without the Ball: A Novel in Four Quarters
Technical Foul

Eric Walters

Rebound

Kevin Waltman

Learning the Game

 

Boxing

Michael Cadnum

Redhanded

Bryce Courtenay

The Power of One

Craig Davidson

The Fighter

Kathleen Karr

The Boxer

Robert Lipsyte

Warrior Angel

Deirdre McNamer

One Sweet Quarrel

Gary Soto

Petty Crimes

Markus Zusak

Fighting Ruben Wolfe

 

Football

Sandra Brown

The Rana Look

Lowen Clausen

Third & Forever

Catherine Coulter

The Aristocrat

John Coy

Crackback

Margaret Daley

Family for Keeps

Whitfield Grant

Railroaded!

Tim Green

Double Reverse
Titans

John Grisham

Bleachers

Pete Hautman

Rash

Jane Heller

An Ex to Grind

Joshilyn Jackson

Gods in Alabama

Jerry B. Jenkins

Hometown Legend

Chris Lynch

Inexcusable

Jerry Marshall

Mr. Irrelevant

Suzanne Matson

A Trick of Nature

Bob Morris

Jamaica Me Dead

Robert Morris

Bahamarama

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Dairy Queen

Tawni O’Dell

Coal Run

Randy Powell

Three Clams and an Oyster

Alice Randall

Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Gary Reiswig

Water Boy

David Rosenfelt

Sudden Death

Eric Walters

Juice

 

Golf

William Bernhardt

Final Round

Dan Binchy

Loopy

Bob Cullen

A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe

Aaron Elkins

On The Fringe

Roberta Isleib

Fairway to Heaven

Dan Jenkins

The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give- Up Artist

Dan Jenkins

Slim and None

Roland Merullo

Golfing With God

Michael Murphy

The Kingdom of Shivas Irons

John D. Spooner

The Foursome

 

Hockey

Chris Lynch

Iceman

Roy MacGregor

Forever: The Annual Hockey Classic

Don Reddick

Dawson City Seven

Luanne Rice

Summer Light

Diane Schoemperlen

Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New and Selected

Robert Sedlack

The Horn of a Lamb

 

Tennis

John Clarke

The Tournament

Harlan Coben

Drop Shot

Robert Corbet

Fifteen Love

Stephen Fry

Revenge
The Stars’ Tennis Balls

H.R.F. Keating

A Detective in Love

Martina Navratilova

Killer Instinct: A Jordan Myles Mystery

 

Wrestling

Neil Connelly

Buddy Cooper Finds a Way
St. Michael’s Scales

Alfred C. Martino

Pinned

 

 

 

 

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