Sports & Leisure

Baseball

Try:
Jerry Amernic ~ The Gift of the Bambino
Kevin Baker ~ Sometimes You can See it Coming
Jim Bouton ~ Strike Zone
Brendan Boyd ~ Blue Ruin
Michael Chabon ~ Summerland
David Ferrell ~ Screwball
Bill Granger ~ The New York Yanquis
Paul Hemphill ~ Long Gone
Rookie ~ Jerry B. Jenkins
W.P. Kinsella ~ The Dixon Cornbelt League / Shoeless Joe
Peter Lefcourt ~ The Dreyfus Affair
Mike Lupica ~ Wild Pitch
Frank O'Rourke ~ The Heavenly World Series
Patrick Robinson ~ Slider
Bill Scheft ~ The Ringer
Brian Shawver ~ The Cuban Prospect
Troy Soos
C.W. Tooke ~ Ballpark Blues


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Basketball

Try:
James W. Bennett ~ Squared Circle
Harlan Coben ~ One False Move
Rita Ewing ~ Homecourt Advantage
Tibor Fischer ~ Under the Frog
Mike Lupica ~ Full Court Press / Jump
Robert B. Parker ~ Playmates
Jim Patton ~ Shake
Rick Reilly ~ Slo Mo!
Nina Revoyr ~ The Necessary Hunger
Charley Rosen ~ The House of Moses All-stars
Harry Stein ~ Hoopla
Amy L. Talford ~ Dying to Meet You


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Boxing

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Matt Bloom ~ Blue Paradise
George Macdonald Fraser ~ Black Ajax
Leonard Gardner ~ Fat City
Ed Gorman ~ Blood Game
W.C. Heinz ~ The Professional
Michael Katz ~ Last Dance in Redondo Beach
Antonia Logue ~ Shadow-box
Jack London ~ Abysmal Brute
Eddie Muller ~ The Distance / Shadowboxer
Yxta Maya Murray ~ What it Takes to get to Vegas
Darin Strauss ~ The Real McCoy
F.X. Toole


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Fishing

Try:
Rick Bass ~ Platte River
Mallory Burton ~ Green River Virgins
Gilbert Byron
Michelle Chalfoun ~ The Width of the Sea
Herb Curtis
M.David Detweiler ~ Evenings Along the Stream
David James Duncan ~ The River Why
Elizabeth Gilbert ~ Stern Men
Alyson Hagy ~ Graveyard of the Atlantic
Gerald Hammond ~ Hook or Crook
Ernest Hemingway ~ Islands in the Sun / The Old Man and the Sea
Victoria Houston ~ The Loon Lake Fishing Mysteries
Sydney Lea ~ A Place in Mind
Norman McLean ~ A River Runs Through It
Jay Nussbaum ~ Blue Road to Atlantis
LuAnne Rice ~ Blue Moon
Sandy Rodgers ~ Bimini Twists
Allen Say ~ A River Dream
William G. Tapply
Tom Winton ~ Dirt Music
Brian M. Wiprud ~ Sleep with the Fishes

Links:
Fishing Recommended Reading


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Football

Try:
Steve Brewer ~ The Drew Gavin Series
Mitch Cullen ~ Whompyjawed
Don DeLillo ~ End Zone
Peter Gent ~ North Dallas Forty
John Grisham ~ Bleachers
E. Lynn Harris ~ And This too shall Pass
Thomas Harris ~ Black Sunday
Paul Hemphill ~ Nobody's Hero
Dan Jenkins ~ Rude Behaviour / Semi-Tough
Jerry B. Jenkins ~ Hometown Legend
Don Keith ~ Forever Season
Mike Lupica ~ Bump & Run / Red Zone
Willard Manus ~ The Pigskin Rabbi
Otto Penzler ~ Sudden Death
Susan Elizabeth Phillips ~ The Chicago Stars Series
George Plimpton ~ Paper Lions

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Golf

Try:
William Bernhardt ~ Final Round
J.S. Borthwick ~ Murder in the Rough
Agatha Christie ~ Murder on the Links
Harlan Coben ~ Backspin
John R. Corrigan ~ Jack Austin series
John Coyne ~ The Caddie who knew Ben Hogan
Bob Cullen ~ A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe
Conor Daly ~ Local Knowledge
Pete Dexter ~ Train
David Feherty
Michael Griffith ~ Spikes
Alan B. Hollingsworth ~ Flatbellies / University Boulevard
Bo Links ~ Riverbank Tweed and Roadmap Jenkins
Jessica Maxwell ~ Driving Myself Crazy
Keith Miles ~ Bermuda Grass
Troon McAllister
James Patterson ~ Miracle on the 17th Green
Steven Pressfield ~ The Legend of Bagger Vance
Rick Reilly ~ Missing Links
Anthony Robinson ~ The Member-Guest
Mike Shropshire ~ The Pro
Don J. Snyder ~ Winter Dreams
Lee Tyler ~ The Case of the Missing Links
J. Michael Veron ~ The Greatest Course that Never Was / The Greatest Player Who Never Lived
P.G. Wodehouse ~ Fore!


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Hockey

Try:
Judith Alguire ~ Iced
Steve Galloway ~ Finnie Walsh
Bill Gaston ~ The Good Body
Rachel Gibson ~ See Jane Score
F.G. Paci ~ Icelands
Paul Quarrington ~ King Leary
Don Reddick ~ Dawson City Seven
Luanne Rice ~ Summer Light
Julie Robitaille ~ Iced
Ed Vega ~ The Comeback
Dick Wimmer ~ The Fastest Game


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Olympics

Try:
Max Barclay ~ Red Mercury
Dyan Blacklock ~ Pankration
Michael B. Edwards ~ Murder at the Panionic Games
Dan Goldsmith ~ The Long Journey Home
Tom Holt ~ The Olympiad
Emma Lathen ~ Going for the Gold
Patrick Lynch ~ Figure of Eight
Norman L. Miller ~ Icespy
Meredith Phillips ~ Death Spiral
Maynard F. Thompson ~ Dreams of Gold
Sabrina Wylly ~ Summer Games


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Surfing

Try:
Chris Ahrens ~ Good Things Love Water / Joyrides / Kelea's Gift
Fiona Capp ~ Night Surfing
Michael E. DeGregorio ~ Secret Spot / Thunder Bay
Paul Hayden ~ Last Wave
Frederick Kohner ~ Gidget
Cathy Lester ~ Surf Patrol
Ray Maloney ~ Impact Zone
Jack Pollard ~ The Surfrider
Nicholas Ware ~ Surfing the CIA


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Tennis

Try:
Jack Bickham ~ The Brad Smith Series
Rita Mae Brown ~ Sudden Death
Hampton Charles ~ Advantage Miss Seeton
John Clarke ~ The Tournament
Harlan Coben ~ Dropshot
H.R.F. Keating ~ A Detective in Love
Anne LaMott ~ Crooked Little Heart
S.M.Mawe ~ Grown Men
Mike McClary ~ Sore Loser
Ilie Nastase ~ Break Point / Net
Madeleine Wickham ~ The Tennis Party
Stuart Woods ~ Choke

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