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Vendor: Spencer Stephens
Church of Golf: A Novel About Second Chances
Donald Gibson had it all. And then he screwed the pooch. Donald and his fabulous blond hair found fame and success too easy and too early. He starred as a football player for the University of Maryland and brought his alma mater its first...- $13.82
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Vendor: Ty Strange
On Sundays We Go Long
Bound by running talent, five upwardly mobile, thirtysomething men juggle relationships, careers, heartaches, and technology's pervasive reach, all the while training and racing together, pursuing cross-country club championship bragging rights.Gregarious loner Dillon Percy literally runs away with his dog, Miles, from a messy divorce...- $26.95
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Toonamint of Champions & Why Golf Is So Exciting!, the Stairway Press Collected Edition
Why Golf is so Exciting! Ever had some dumb hick up and tell you about his round of golf-hole by dang hole? Ever been knocked on your skull real hard by a school bus? The numbing effect is exactly the same. But in Why...- $19.95
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Vendor: Kate Christie
Training Ground: Book One of Girls of Summer
Sometimes a chance meeting can change everything. At fifteen, Jamie Maxwell's main goals in life are to make the United States youth national soccer pool, move past the Incident-That-Shall-Not-Be- Named, and maybe-someday-kiss a girl. When she meets Emma Blakeley at a tournament in Southern...- $12.95
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Vendor: Rob Roberge
Drive
DRIVE is the one of the great basketball novels of all time, a dark, funny, compassionate story from a writer who has been called "the laureate of any marginalized demographic, a professor of the articulately disenfranchised." It'll draw you into what it means to...- $12.99
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Vendor: Walter G. Meyer
Rounding Third
Rob Wardell is a seventeen-year old who feels like he doesn't quite fit in anywhere--not at home, not at school and not on the baseball field. The small, shy boy stays on the high school baseball team only to please his father since he...- $15.99
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Vendor: Penelope Dyan
Surfer Girl
Summer wants to figure out what the legacy of her life will be. Summer's mother is a writer and is leaving behind her writing for Summer, because this is her legacy for her; and Summer wants a legacy of her own because she is...- $11.95
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Vendor: Denis Dauphinee
The River Home
Author: Denis DauphineeISBN-10: 0945980752ISBN-13: 9780945980759Publisher: North Country PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2013Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d- $16.95
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Vendor: James Hawking
Strikeout, a Novel: Baseball, Broadway and the Brotherhood in the 19th Century
John Ward-pitcher turned shortstop, author, lawyer and president of the first union for professional athletes-was married to the glamorous Helen Dauvray, a child star who re-invented herself on the Paris stage and as a leading lady and a wealthy producer on Broadway. On Albert...- $26.95
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Vendor: Robert E. Howard
Waterfront Fists and Others: The Collected Fight Stories of Robert E. Howard
It is impossible to ignore the sheer number of boxing stories that Robert E. Howard wrote. Serious or funny, spooky or adventurous, these stories represent a fierce creative outburst that would pave the way later for his western hero, Breckenridge Elkins. In these stories...- $19.95
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Vendor: Darryl Brock
Havana Heat
A former star hurler for John McGraw's brawling Giants, Luther "Dummy" Taylor was also one of Major League Baseball's first deaf players. Havana Heat follows Taylor's life and fortunes when, after a strong season in the bushes in 1911, he comes to believe that...- $19.95
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Vendor: Rick Reilly
Shanks for Nothing
The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly's beloved bestselling golf novel Missing LinksLife is going pretty well for Raymond "Stick" Hart. He's happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting...- $15.95
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Vendor: Harry Turtledove
House of Daniel
From Harry Turtledove, "Master of Alternate History," comes a tale of minor league baseball set in an alternate Great Depression America full of wild magic Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States hasn't been the same. Hotshot wizards will...- $18.99
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Vendor: Jack McCallum
Foul Lines: A Pro Basketball Novel
From two senior Sports Illustrated writers comes an explosive, fast-paced satire that will do for today's NBA what North Dallas Forty did for the NFL a generation ago. Just months from his Yale graduation, street-smart whiz kid Jamal Kelly leaves school to take a...- $20.99
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Vendor: Steve Chapman
Great Hunting Stories
Bestselling author Steve Chapman (A Look at Life from a Deer Stand, over 230,000 copies sold) spins adventuresome hunting tales based on real-life excursions. Steve's passion for God, family, and hunting make his stories entertaining and chockful of insights and encouragement for growing spiritually...- $14.99
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Vendor: Bo Links
Follow the Wind: Tales from the Caddy Yard
Welcome to The Club -- Golf's Valhalla -- where all that's necessary for admission is an intense love of the game. Here you'll watch the greatest players replay their victories...and their defeats...as they search for golf's hidden and seemingly inaccessible meaning. Like W.P. Kinsella's...- $17.95
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Vendor: John Clarke
The Tournament
A novel of the 20th century in which the greatest thinkers and personalities engage in a two-week tennis tournament. "If you didn't know better you'd think this city had gone crazy. The streets of Paris are full of celebrities and media, and out at...- $35.00
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Vendor: Douglas Brunt
Trophy Son
"Trophy Son brings Conroy's The Great Santini and Malamud's The Natural into the present day...A terrific book." -Harlan Coben New York Times bestselling author Douglas Brunt's third novel, Trophy Son, tells the story of a tennis prodigy, from young childhood to the finals of...- $21.99
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Vendor: Ron Irwin
Flat Water Tuesday
A stunning saga of love, sport, and buried secrets Rob Carrey is a successful documentary filmmaker who has returned from a shoot to New York City, where he's prepared to separate from Carolyn, his long-time love. But when he finds an invitation to his...- $22.99
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Vendor: Julia Clarke
Calling the Plays
Football taught me to always keep my eye on the ball. But three players have captured my focus-and now, my heart.Before them, the idea that I could care about anything more than football was inconceivable. And I never would've allowed one man to threaten...- $12.99
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Vendor: As Teague
The Hardest Route
My friends used to tell me 'What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' Clearly, they lied because a few months later, I found out my one-night stand was pregnant. I couldn't handle a baby. I was Griffin Rockwell, the best wide receiver the league...- $12.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Jenshak
The Tip-Off: A College Sports Romance
I've spent years hiding in the shadows. He's spent his whole life chasing the bright lights of the NBA.We have nothing in common, except for the fact our friends ditched us for spring break. I have a bucket list for my senior year at...- $14.99
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Gym Class Hero
Life is throwing a lot at Stevie Kalkannes as he begins his Junior year at Jackson High School. As basketball season approaches in northern Ohio, Stevie wonders whether he should return to playing a game he loves after being the star of the team...- $14.99
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Vendor: Jeff Polman
Ball Nuts: A Mad 1977 Baseball Replay Odyssey
BALL NUTS traces the daily fortunes of six baseball-crazy inmates who escape from a Squallpocket, Maine hospital via a mysterious time warp to experience a wild, funkified, and re-imagined 1977 baseball season. Red Sox fanatic Carlton "Buzz" Gip shares the narrative duties with Mikey...- $11.99
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Vendor: Don McDuffee
Called Up: A Lacrosse Story
Johnny Price and his best friend Kenny have been living and loving lacrosse for as long as they can remember. Johnny is a grinder that constantly works on all aspects of the game, especially face offs. Kenny is a true phenom with a knack...- $12.99
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Vendor: Marshall F. Umpleby
Delayed Steal: Baseball Stories
Baseball is life, or so the saying goes. In this book, a man's relationship with his father coincides with the twists, turns, and surprises experienced in the game of baseball. From a sandlot in Massachusetts at the turn of the century to an old...- $23.95
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Vendor: Steve Dick
The Spirit of Lawsonia
The Golf Courses of Lawsonia The Links Opened for play in May, 1930, the Links course remains unique to date. Designed by William Langford, the course is arranged in the Scottish golf links tradition. Elevated greens, unusually severe bunkers, and open rolling terrain still...- $12.95
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Vendor: John Boyer
The Admiral's Game
Author: John BoyerISBN-10: 0595211348ISBN-13: 9780595211340Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2002Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.64h x 6.44w x 0.91d- $18.95
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Vendor: Lee K. Abbott
The Putt at the End of the World
The richest man in the world invites a trio of mediocre golfers to play at a secret course in Scotland. The result of their efforts will somehow affect the fate of the world. Can golf save the world? Fore? No, nine. That's how many...- $19.99
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Vendor: Dick Francis
Bolt
Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit's nemesis has plans to knock him off the track--and...- $8.99
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Vendor: Sarina Bowen
Pipe Dreams
In this Brooklyn Bruisers romance from USA Today bestselling author Sarina Bowen, a hockey goalie has to trust his instincts, even when taking a shot to the heart...Mike Beacon is a champion at defending the net, but off the ice, he's not so lucky....- $7.99
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Vendor: Felix Francis
Triple Crown
Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has...- $22.00
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Vendor: Dan Jenkins
Dead Solid Perfect
The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author. Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about...- $17.00
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Playing the Game
Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when...- $21.00
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The Art of Fielding
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to...- $54.00
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Vendor: Joeann Hart
Addled
Eden Rock Country Club is a grand New England institution, a lush haven of leisure and cocktails, where gossip and intrigue lurk discreetly behind a veil of old-world propriety. But one Fourth of July, a flock of geese descends on the club's manicured lawns;...- $39.00
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Vendor: Joelle Charbonneau
Skating on the Edge
Rebecca Robbins, owner of the Toe Stop roller-skating rink, is back, this time joined by a tough and sassy roller derby team, and she has a new puzzling murder to solve. It's Native American Summer Days in Indian Falls, and Rebecca is roped into...- $35.99
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Vendor: Geoffrey Howard
Cantona - Ooh Ah
Whacky, outrageous, surreal and very funny. These two unusual pieces by Geoffrey Howard barely fill thirty pages, but what they lack in quantity, they make up for in entertainment. The first piece is a surreal fictional work about Eric Cantona. When his second cousin...- $6.53
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Vendor: Don Delillo
End Zone
The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning...- $16.00
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Vendor: Patrick Hasburgh
Pirata
From 21-Jump Street writer and series creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow's The Dawn Patrol."It's rare to...- $18.99
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Vendor: Benjamin Markovits
Playing Days
In print for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits's Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author's season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player's estranged wife that ushers him...- $15.99
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Vendor: Chris Leslie-Hynan
Ride Around Shining
Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionA provocative debut novel about a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, an NBA player--a twenty-first century inversion of what we've come to expect stories of race and class to look like, and...- $14.99
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The Killings of Stanley Ketchel
Hailed as "one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life" (Entertainment Weekly), James Carlos Blake turns to the blazing story of Stanley Ketchel, the legendary ragtime-era middleweight boxing champion and daring rakehell, whose brief and meteoric life burned with violence and...- $16.99
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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.