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PLAYING THE GAME
Sports in FictionAlthough the lion's share of writing about sports has focused on baseball, an increasing number of books on other sports have appeared in the last several years. This is particularly true of sports fiction. In addition to simply telling stories about athletes and their games, authors are increasingly using the world of sports as a background for mysteries, legal thrillers, and other types of fiction. The titles below represent some of the current works of fiction that have as a major subject athletes or athletics, and they may be found by searching under the author's last name in the fiction area. The reference staff can help you find any of these books or other sports fiction not on this list.
Anthologies
Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories About Sports (SS SHOW)
Baseball
Peter Abrahams — The Fan
Brendan Boyd — Blue Ruin: A Novel of the 1919 World Series
Jim Bouton — Strike Zone
W.P. Kinsella — Box Socials
Les Standiford — Done DealBasketball
Alan Dershowitz — The Advocate's Devil
John Feinstein — Winter Games
Tibor Fischer — Under the Frog: A Black Comedy
Tabitha King — One on One
Mike Lupica — Jump
Football
Robert Funderburk — Tenderness and Fire
Tim Green — Ruffians
E. Lynn Harris — And This Too Shall Pass
Golf
Michael Murphy — The Kingdom of Shivas Irons
Steven Pressfield — The Legend of Bagger Vance
Rick Reilly — Missing Links
John Updike — Golf Dreams: Writings on GolfHorse Racing
Dick Francis — 10 lb. Penalty
Susan Johnson — Sinful
Karen Robards — Hunter's Moon
Nora Roberts — True Betrayals
Jane Smiley — Horse HeavenTennis
Annabel Davis-Goff — Night Tennis
Lionel Shriver — Doublefault
Madeleine Wickham — The Tennis Party
Stuart Woods — Choke(BT 5/98)
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