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Vendor: Leonard Gardner
Fat City
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and...- $16.95
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Play Fresh
Excitement was in the air and the sun was shining down on Greentopia University. The warm weather welcomed the two rival football teams for the highly anticipated game of the year- the Garden Football League Championship! The BIG question was: "Who will win the...- $13.95
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The Happiest Girl in the World
"Propulsive, transfixing, and disturbing. I could not set the book down. Harrowing and fearlessly honest, The Happiest Girl in the World is a haunting read because it couldn't have done justice to its subjects - fictional and real - any other way." --PopsugarOne of...- $19.99
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The Old Man and the Boy
This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the Old Man acts as teacher and guide, passing on his wisdom and life experiences to the...- $19.99
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Vendor: Peter Zheutlin
Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story
Ride away on a 'round-the-world adventure of a lifetime--with only a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver--in this trascendent novel inspired by the life of Annie Londonderry. "Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."--Susan B. Anthony Who...- $25.95
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Vendor: John Grisham
Playing for Pizza
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a national laughingstock. Cut by the Cleveland Browns, and shunned by every other team, Rick insists that his...- $9.99
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Playing for Pizza
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a national laughingstock. Cut by the Cleveland Browns, and shunned by every other team, Rick insists that his...- $17.00
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Sunday's Sin: A Conspiracy to Fix the Big Game: Why Did Boochie Jones Have To Die?
In the not-too-distant future, professional football is king and its players are royalty. Boochie Jones, star player for Buffalo, is among the best in the league. He's a model player with tremendous gifts and a heart of gold. As Boochie leads his team to...- $14.95
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Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
P.G. Wodehouse often said that he wished he'd spent more time playing golf and less "fooling about writing stories and things." Happily, the prolific and beloved satirist often took his pen to the green. Here, Wodehouse expert D.R. Bensen has collected a dozen pieces...- $16.99
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Vendor: Gabe Habash
Stephen Florida
Foxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding, Stephen Florida follows a wrestler in North Dakota during his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a...- $16.95
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Vendor: James Patterson
Miracle at St. Andrews
In this inspiring novel, one ordinary man makes the pilgrimage to the mythical greens of St. Andrews--the birthplace of golf--on a search for greatness. If golf novels had a leaderboard, Miracle at St. Andrews would be at the top. Though nobody has ever identified...- $15.99
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Vendor: Dick Francis
Driving Force
New York Times bestselling grand master of crime fiction Jockey Freddie Croft discovers a high-stakes conspiracy that exposes the seedy underside of horse-racing-and faces deadlier odds of survival than in any steeplechase run.Author: Dick FrancisISBN-10: 0425233189ISBN-13: 9780425233184Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2010Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $8.99
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Decider
A smash hit novel now in trade form - a rare and magical talent, who never writes the same story twice. (San Diego Union-Tribune) In Decider, inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds...- $22.00
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Vendor: Don Winslow
The Dawn Patrol
From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). As cool as its California surfer heroes, Don Winslow delivers a high velocity, darkly comic, and totally righteous crime novel.Every morning Boone Daniels catches waves with the other members of The Dawn Patrol:...- $18.00
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Vendor: Frederick Kohner
Gidget
A surfing, boy-crazy teenager comes of age in the summer of 1957 in this classic novel that inspired both movies and television and created an American pop culture icon. "My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you...- $14.00
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Vendor: George W. Young
TIME Blinked: A Time-Travel Baseball Novel
Just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, talented college athlete Bobby spends his days with those he loves and stays close to home. But unlike Dorothy, when Bobby's "tornado" bushwhacks his world, it doesn't move him into a fantastical realm of color and...- $15.99
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A Fan's Notes
Rejacketed, the first volume in Fred Exley's autobiographical trilogy is reissued to coincide with the publication of the third new volume, Last Notes From Home.Author: Frederick ExleyISBN-10: 0679720766ISBN-13: 9780679720768Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/1988Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.18w x 0.73d- $17.00
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Vendor: John Grisham
Calico Joe
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball... "Grisham knocks it out of the park."--The Washington Post It's the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is...- $27.00
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Vendor: Charles Martin
A Life Intercepted
A rising football star is falsely accused of a heinous crime and must risk everything to win his wife after returning to their small George hometown in this tale of loss, love, and redemption by New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin. Twelve years...- $16.99
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Vendor: Richard Ford
The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)
In this "powerful" blockbuster of a novel (The New York Times), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day introduces his most beloved character, failed novelist turned sportswriter Frank Bascombe, during an Easter weekend, as he moves through the great losses of his life. As...- $18.00
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Vendor: Rigan Machado
Encyclopedia of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Volume 2: Volume 2
This three volumes series is fully revised, updated, and packed with more than 1,500 pictures This masterclass work guides you step-by-step from essential Jiu Jitsu basics through the most advanced and sophisticated attacks, escapes, and defenses used by the top fighters in the UFC,...- $34.95
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Bleachers
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach...- $22.00
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Vendor: Joe Siple
Charlie Fightmaster and the Search for Perfect Harmony
From USA Today bestselling author Joe Siple (The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride) comes another of his distinctly authentic tales of redemption and love.When Charlie Fightmaster gets the call-up to the Major Leagues, all of his dreams are about to come true. But...- $17.95
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Vendor: Stephen King
A Face in the Crowd
Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes listeners to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond. Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front...- $9.99
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Vendor: Sarina Bowen
Rookie Move
The first novel in a sexy series featuring the hockey players of the Brooklyn Bruisers and the women who win their hearts--from the USA Today bestselling author of the Ivy Years series. In high school they were the perfect couple--until the day Georgia left...- $7.99
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Vendor: Paul Shirley
Ball Boy
Gray Taylor wants to be remarkable but isn't. Gray gets the chance to change this when his mother moves him from Los Angeles to the dying Kansas town of Beaudelaire, where Gray finds basketball. Gray uses basketball to become someone people notice. And later...- $15.00
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Vendor: Kristen Callihan
The Game Plan
A beard-related dare and one hot-as-hell kiss changes everything. NFL center Ethan Dexter's focus has always been on playing football and little else. Except when it comes to one particular woman. The lovely Fiona Mackenzie might not care about his fame, but she's also...- $15.95
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Vendor: Walter Tevis
The Queen's Gambit
Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four.Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game...- $34.95
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Vendor: Ring Lardner
You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
One of the classic baseball stories, You Know Me Al, first published in 1914, tells the story of the fictional Jack Keefe, a bush league baseball player who earns a trip to the majors to pitch for the Chicago White Sox. Set in pre-World...- $14.95
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Vendor: Steven Pressfield
The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life
In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who...- $18.99
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Vendor: David L. Cook
Seven Days in Utopia: Golf's Sacred Journey
Golfers and non-golfers alike will be moved by this powerful story of transformation revealing the secrets to success in life beyond success in our game or work.Luke Chisolm is a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. But when his first big...- $14.99
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Vendor: Lionel Shriver
Double Fault
"Shriver shows in a masterstroke why character is fate and how sport reveals it." --New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin comes a brilliant and...- $15.99
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Vendor: Kat T. Masen
Bad Boy Player
I never should have fooled around with my brother's best friend... Emerson Everyone thinks they know who I am. I'm the TV star who fell in love with her co-star, Wesley Rich. But it wasn't real. It was a life designed to entertain millions...- $18.00
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Vendor: Amy Daws
Replay: Second Chance Sports Romance
Not all players deserve a second chance... no matter how hot their first chance was. Football club lawyer, Santino Rossi is known in the locker room as the two-month chump. For years he's been on a mission to find someone he can share his...- $16.99
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Vendor: Lauren Weisberger
The Singles Game
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons comes a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court.How far would you go to...- $17.00
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Vendor: Katie M. Kitamura
Longshot
Abrilliant, spare debut novel that follows a former mixed martial arts star and his longtime coach over the course of three fraught days as they prepare for his momentous comeback match. Four years after Rivera knocked Cal from dominance, Cal's coach, Riley, has set...- $14.99
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Vendor: Harold Robbins
Stone for Danny Fisher
As a teenager, Danny Fisher had all he ever wanted -- a dog, a grown-up summer job, flirtatious relationships with older women -- and a talent for ruthless boxing that quickly made him a star in the amateur sporting world. But when Danny's family...- $29.99
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Vendor: Dick Francis
Twice Shy
A computerized horse-betting system falls into Jonathan Derry's hands--and unless he returns it to the rightful owners, the odds of his survival are slim to none.Author: Dick FrancisISBN-10: 0425198774ISBN-13: 9780425198773Publisher: G.P. Putnam's SonsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2004Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 6.84h x 4.24w x 0.88d- $8.99
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Vendor: Mitch Kemmer
As the Son of a Dog Man ... I was Tortured with Knowledge
As the Son of a Dog Man ... I was Tortured with Knowledge is a true to life historical fiction account of the challenging task of firmly, humanely and effectively conditioning American Pit Bull Terriers for combat. Kemmer was a third-generation dog man, learning...- $199.95
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Vendor: Corey Sobel
The Redshirt
Shortlisted for 2020 Center for Fiction's First Novel PrizeCorey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth...- $50.00
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Vendor: Amo Jones
Flip Trick
I did something I had never done before. I had a one-night stand. Then in true me fashion, I left my phone at his house during my desperate venture to escape.I tried hard to ignore the texts sent to my best friend's phone...Amethyst: Sup,...- $16.00
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Don't Skip Out on Me
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD An ALA Notable BookFrom award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch...- $18.99
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Racing the Rain
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--acclaimed by Runner's World as "the best novel ever written about running"--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and '60s on Florida's Gold Coast....- $18.00
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Dick Francis's Bloodline
Another great best-selling mystery from the grand master of the genre...When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst:...- $9.99
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The Art of Fielding
A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed tale about love, life, and baseball, praised by the New York Times as "wonderful...a novel that is every bit as entertaining as it is affecting." Named one of...- $45.00
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Pure Life
A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation. Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner's daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of,...- $22.95
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The Mighty Oak
Tim O'Connor is paid to be violent. He plays for the El Paso Storm in the West Texas Hockey League. People call him Oak. He's been an enforcer for longer than his hip or shoulder or back have been able to hold together. He...- $16.99
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Looking for the Seams
Daniel "Trip" Furman is poised to be the next great athlete of his generation. He has grown up surrounded by stellar coaches and teachers, but a series of personal losses during his final semester of college sends him reeling into despair, and he abandons...- $16.95
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Escape from Castro's Cuba
Named a 2021 Top Thriller by Alta Journal 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist in Action/Adventure Fiction 2021 Professional Achievement Award, Johns Hopkins University faculty Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year In this visionary sequel to...- $19.95
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Hearts and Thorns
Then he moved, his unsaid words fading into a kiss that would break a thousand rules and promises for years to come. Jackson Thorn was my best friend and worst enemy, but that didn't stop me from wanting him. From first words to high...- $12.99
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Fiction Sports Books
Fiction sports books encompass a wide range of literature that combines the thrilling world of sports with imaginative storytelling. These collections are a treasure trove for sports enthusiasts and fiction lovers alike, offering a unique blend of athleticism, competition, and human drama. One of the primary characteristics of fiction sports books is their ability to transport readers into the heart of various sporting events, whether it's a high-stakes football game, an intense basketball match, or an adrenaline-fueled race. Authors skillfully weave together the physicality, strategy, and emotion of sports, creating narratives that captivate readers and keep them on the edge of their seats.
These books delve into the lives of athletes, coaches, and fans, exploring the triumphs and challenges they face both on and off the field. Through vivid character development, authors offer glimpses into the mental and emotional journey of these individuals, highlighting the personal sacrifices they make, the relationships they form, and the lessons they learn along the way. Fiction sports books also often examine broader themes beyond the game itself. They touch on topics such as teamwork, perseverance, determination, and overcoming obstacles. These stories celebrate the human spirit's resilience, inspiring readers to dream big, embrace their passions, and push their personal boundaries.
Moreover, fiction sports books appeal to a wide audience, attracting sports enthusiasts seeking an escape into fictional worlds as well as readers who are drawn to compelling narratives and character-driven stories. This makes them an excellent choice for both avid fans of a particular sport and those who simply appreciate well-crafted storytelling.
Whether you're a diehard sports fanatic or someone looking to explore new genres, fiction sports books provide an avenue to experience the thrill, passion, and intensity of sports through the power of literature. So, dive into these collections, step onto the field, and discover the captivating blend of fiction and sports that awaits.
Popular Fiction Sports Books
Fiction sports books have captivated readers for decades with stories of triumph, struggle, and the joy of competition. From tales of professional athletes striving for greatness to narratives of underdogs overcoming obstacles, these books offer a unique blend of athleticism and human drama that appeals to a wide audience. There are several popular books in this genre that have garnered critical acclaim and captured the hearts of readers worldwide.
1. "Friday Night Lights"
2. "The Natural"
3. "Underworld"
4. "The Art of Fielding"
5. "Seabiscuit"
6. "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game"
These popular fiction sports books showcase the power of storytelling and offer readers a captivating escape into the world of sports. Whether you're a sports fan or simply appreciate a well-crafted narrative, these books are sure to entertain, inspire, and leave a lasting impression.
Popular Sports Fiction Books AUTHORS
The world of sports captures the hearts and minds of millions of people around the globe. From the exhilarating moments on the field or court to the behind-the-scenes drama, the world of sports is a never-ending source of inspiration. For those who love both sports and literature, fiction sports books offer a unique and captivating reading experience.
Many authors have taken on the challenge of bringing the world of sports alive through their words, creating stories that resonate with readers of all ages. These popular authors have mastered the art of capturing the thrill, passion, and dedication that define the world of athletics. Let's delve into the world of fiction sports books and explore some of the most well-known authors in this genre.
1. John Grisham
2. Harlan Coben
3. Tim Green
4. Mike Lupica
5. Carl Deuker
These are just a few of the many popular authors of fiction sports books who have left an indelible mark on the genre. Whether it's exploring the world of professional sports or capturing the spirit of youth athletics, their books offer readers an escape into the thrilling world of sports, filled with passion, adversity, and triumph.
The fiction sports books collection at White Rain Book House is truly a hidden gem for those who appreciate the thrill and drama that sports bring, combined with the imaginative storytelling of fiction. Whether you are a die-hard sports fan or simply someone who enjoys a good narrative, this collection promises to captivate and entertain you.