Fiction about sports and the people who play sports. 34 listings found. Displaying 1 - 20

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	Bamberger, Michael The Swinger : a Novel "His name, as we all know, is Herbert X. 'Tree' Tremont, and he's the richest and most celebrated athlete of our time-- a multicultural golfing icon with fifty-three Tour wins, thirteen major victories, a smoking hot wife, and two adorable kids. Tree's carefully cultivated image has made him so beloved by corporate America that he is the first celebrity in history to endorse Coke and Pepsi. The world kneels at his feet. As it turns out, so do a good many agreeable young women."--P. [2] of dust jacket. 2011 Adult Fiction Book
	Bavaro, Mark Rough & Tumble A riveting debut novel of a season in the life of a professional football player--written by one of the NFL's best tight ends of all time. This is a classic sports story of one man's determination and grit within the brutal world of the NFL. 2008 Adult Fiction Book
	Benaron, Naomi Running the Rift : a Novel Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life. 2012 Adult Fiction Book
	Coben, Harlan Deal Breaker Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. But when Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client, gets a phone call from a former girlfriend who everyone believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. 1995 Adult Mystery Book COBEN
	Deford, Frank The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball Howie Traveler, manager of the Cleveland Indians, and his Cuban-American star player, Jay Alcazar, have little interaction off the field until Traveler witnesses an encounter between Alcazar and a woman that ends in a rape charge. 2007 Adult Fiction Book DEFORD
	Deuker, Carl Payback Time Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past. 2010 Teen Fiction Book
	Duncan, David James. The River Why This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young flyfisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a secluded cabin on a remote riverbank to pursue his own flyfishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning -- ultimately fruitful beyond his wildest dreams. 2002 Adult Fiction Book
	Falla, Jack Saved Veteran Boston goaltender Jean Pierre Savard sees stardom and the money it brings as fate's call for a life in which he lost his father, his wife, and most of his self confidence. Savard and his best friend teammate, Cam Carter, are trying to fulfill their boyhood dreams of winning a Stanley Cup before they retire. But a surprise late-season trade pits the friends against each other in a playoff series both could lose but only one can win. 2008 Adult Fiction Book
	Francis, Dick Smokescreen A movie star must give the performance of his life when he crosses paths with killers while investigating racehorse tampering in South Africa. 2006 Adult Mystery FRANCIS
	Gordon, Jaimy Lord of Misrule : a Novel "Thoroughbred horse trainer Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing operation by shipping four unclassed horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claimers at long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the West Virginia panhandle, everybody notices from the start-- Kidstuff the farrier, track super Smithers, an old groom Medicine Ed, gypsy owner Deucey Gifford, eventually even the ruled-off bookmaker Two-Tie, and an ominous trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no-one factors in Hansel's go-for girlfriend, Margaret Koderer. Much like the beautiful, used-up, tragic creatures she comes to love, Maggie is almost a force of nature, an adventuress with enough personal magnetism to spin everyone's sure thing right back to the source of all luck."--Publisher's website. 2010 Adult Fiction Book
	Grisham, John Calico Joe This story, based on the Cubs and Mets 1973 season follows the divergent paths of Joe Castle, a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and Warren Tracey, a hard-throwing Mets pitcher. 2012 Adult Fiction Book
	Hamann, H. T. Anthropology of an American Girl The riveting and cinematic story of a young artist's awakening and her enduring love for a professional boxer. Set in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the 1980s. 2010 Adult Fiction Book
	Hamill, Pete Snow in August The friendship of a Jewish rabbi and a Catholic altar boy in 1940s Brooklyn. The rabbi, a Czech who fled the Nazis on the eve of World War II, teaches the boy Judaism while the boy, who is Irish, teaches the rabbi English and baseball. When anti-Semitic hoods attack the rabbi the boy goes to his defense. By the author of A Drinking Life. 1997 Adult Fiction Book HAMILL
	King, Stephen The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon A portable radio helps a girl survive after she is lost in the woods of New England. During her nine-day ordeal, Trisha McFarland fights thirst, wasps and the terrors of the night, all the while keeping up her spirits by listening to music and baseball games. 1999 Adult Fiction Book KING
	Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe Ray Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field, kidnap the author J.D. Salinger, and bring him to a baseball game at his farm. 1982 Adult Fiction Book KINSELLA
	Kitamura, Katie M. The Longshot Cal, the only mixed martial arts fighter to take legendary fighter Rivera the distance, and his trainer, Riley, are on their way to Mexico for a make-or-break rematch with Rivera, four years later. In the three fraught days leading up to this momentous match, each privately begins to doubt that Cal can win. The men strive to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how. 2009 Adult Fiction Book
	Kluger, Steve Last Days of Summer A boy describes growing up Jewish in a mainly Catholic neighborhood in 1930s Brooklyn. The story is told in letters to a celebrated baseball player with whom the boy has struck up a correspondence. 1998 Adult Fiction Book KLUGER
	Kohan, Marti´n Seconds Out New York, 1923: the Argentine boxer Luis Angel Firpo knocks out of the ring Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. Dempsey is out of the ring for seventeen seconds, but is allowed by the US referee to get back in. In the second round, Dempsey knocks Firpo out. Seconds Out is a powerful reflection on memory and national identity. 2010 Adult Fiction Book
	Lavene, Joyce. Hooked Up : a Stock Car Racing Mystery On the road to the Monster Mile at Dover International Speedway, NASCAR fan and ex-cop Glad Wycznewski is expecting nothing more than speed on the raceway, a cold beer in his hand, and love in the RV with his beautiful wife, Ruby. So when Glad finds a strange man in his bed wearing his favourite PJs, he's ready to get pretty upset. But who can be angry with a wife like Ruby? 2008 Adult Fiction Book
	Lupica, Mike Red Zone A sequel to Bump and Run finds New York Hawks co-owner Jack Molloy taking a break abroad after his notorious brothers sell their half of the team to a fractious businessman. 2003 Adult Fiction Book LUPICA

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•	Amernic, Jerry
•	Atkinson, Jay
•	Clarke, John
•	Connelly, Neil O.
•	Corrigan, J.R.
•	Dyja, Thomas
•	Feinstein, John
•	Fried, Ronald
•	Grisham, John
•	Harris, Mark
•	Hemingway, Ernest
•	Hutton, Jeff
•	Jenkins , Dan
•	King, Stephen
•	Kinsella, W.P.
•	Latour, Jose
•	Lewis, Michael M.
•	Lupica, Mike
•	Maclean, Norman
•	Malamud, Bernard
•	McInerny, Ralph
•	Mosher, Howard Frank
•	Navratilova, Martina Jordan Myles Mystery
•	Rivers, Reggie
•	Roth, Philip
•	Smiley, Jane
•	Soos, Frank Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery
•	Tooke, C.W.
•	Upton, Robert
•	Winegardner, Mark
•	Woods, Stuart

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