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Life at These Speeds
The basis for the major motion picture 1 Mile to You"Refreshing...Reminds us that whether we run, play football, sing or write, we need to find the joy in what we do."--Chicago Sun-TimesIn eighth grade Kevin Schuler is a popular kid with a decent, if...- $17.00
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Wrestling With Tradition
Wrestling with TraditionThis novel is a wonderful story that will grab fans of sports. It is not just a tale about a hero; it is the story of a community. It explores how a sporting activity can keep a community together. Dale Stopperan creates...- $16.99
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A Vermont Basketball Story
Expectations are high for the Castle College basketball team in Castleport, Vermont. They have an All-American player and a balanced team, but unforeseen events deter them from success. Their All-American player mysteriously disappears from the deciding game of a tournament. Another player is attacked...- $10.99
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Vendor: Nicole S. Goodin
Mr. July: An MMA Sports Romance
From international bestselling author Nicole S. Goodin, comes a new standalone, MMA sports romance. Hudson Scott.Nicknamed 'The Horror'.Champion MMA fighter.... And caught up in an off-limits woman. Ramsey Ashton.Queasy around blood.Pink haired beauty.... And crushing on her brother's best friend. Hudson's head has always...- $14.99
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Death at the Member-Guest
A Deadly Round of Golf Hacker is back in an exciting new mystery. Invited to play in a buddy's weekend Member-Guest tournament, golf writer Pete Hacker encounters the president of the Shuttlecock Club, a strange, tantrum-throwing cheat. And when the man is murdered during...- $13.99
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A Ticket for a Seamstitch
This is the third novel narrated by Henry Wiggen, a six-foot three-inch, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Henry, who began as a rookie in The Southpaw and developed into a pro in Bang the Drum Slowly, is a mature veteran in...- $10.95
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Baseball's Best Short Stories
This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century's most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball has, and this exceptional anthology...- $19.99
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The Changeup
For the entirety of her life Geffri Robinson has known that being a girl who plays baseball was a novelty. At some point, however, the novelty wore off and she stepped away from playing the sport until a chance exhibition places her at the...- $12.00
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Hawk
It's another season of Renegade baseball and, as they say, the boys are back in town. All except for all-star pitcher, Hawk Sinclair, who has returned to his hometown and back to the ranch he grew up on to rehab after shoulder surgery.Real estate...- $15.99
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The Lineup
Want to know a secret?It's about that girl over there.Don't look, but she's the one in the power suit-with the long, black hair and the serious expression, the one I'm about to go on a date with . . .Yeah, according to her, she...- $16.24
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The Great Gamble
An odd-couple of FBI agents embark on a classified operation into the gambling battlefield which is bleeding into the corrupt empire of athletics. Will the FBI uncover the truth that could shock the nation? A deadly international hunt leads to a fascinating sting in...- $19.99
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Vendor: Kim Ablon Whitney
Autumn Blues: (Show Circuit Series -- Book 4)
Hannah and Chris have been apart ever since the winter circuit ended. It's now fall-nearly a year later. Hannah is at college, making new friends and riding on the IHSA team. Chris is recently back from Europe and competing in the east coast fall...- $14.99
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Vendor: Anne Clermont
Learning to Fall
A behind-the-curtains peek into the glamorous but often heartbreaking world of competitive show jumping, Learning to Fall is a universal story of healing, hope, and what it means to love.Author: Anne ClermontISBN-10: 1940716780ISBN-13: 9781940716787Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2016Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x...- $17.95
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Vendor: Kelly Hartigan Xterraweb
Deke
OllieWord of advice: don't come out to random guys in public restrooms. Even if they're charming and adorably nerdy and offer to help.My family believe I can't be happy if I'm not out to the world. I have a bitter ex-boyfriend and an unstable...- $14.99
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Vendor: Stella Rhys
Hothead
He's the hottest player in Major League Baseball, the most notorious playboy in all of Manhattan...And my fake fianc for the next three months....I was drunk-dialing my ex the night I met him.Six-three, sexy as sin and so incredibly rude I could smack the...- $12.99
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Vendor: Mark Stallard
Rock 'n Fire
Acclaim and Praise for ROCK 'N FIRE Winner of the 2021 NIEA African American Fiction AwardWinner of the 2021 Kops-Fetherling Gold Award for Sports BookFinalist of the 2021 IBA Next Generation African American Fiction AwardBronze Medal Winner of the 2021 Ippy Midwest Fiction AwardBronze...- $17.95
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Vendor: Alistair MacLean
The Way to Dusty Death
Reissue of the classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good looking, desired by women, and envied by men; he's also the reigning...- $15.99
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Vendor: Ella Fields
Evil Love
There was a time Jude Delouxe didn't hate me, and I'm fairly certain it was when he didn't know I existed.Senior year, I finally caught his eye long enough to throw word vomit at him like the obsessed teenage girl I was.That was then.You...- $12.99
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Vendor: John Barnes
18: A Novel of Golf and Life
Craig Cantwell is well known as a journeyman millionaire and 'the best professional golfer who has not won a major.' His successful life as a tour pro is shattered when he is suspended from the PGA Tour. Without a place to compete and with...- $13.99
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Vendor: Natalie Keller Reinert
Grabbing Mane
"Buy a horse, they said. It will be fun, they said."Casey Halbach's life was perfectly on track. She had it all: good friends, loving boyfriend, decent job with her very own cubicle.Then, she met Sky. Riding instructor, barn manager, and whirlwind of energy, Sky...- $18.99
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Vendor: Steve Axman
Crossing the Goal Line: Football and the Inner-City
Sean Dempsey was a stand-out football player with a storied career. After only getting a "cup of coffee" in the NFL, he quickly became an excellent linebacker coach at his alma mater, St. Ignatius. His disdain for a star, but highly obnoxious, linebacker leads...- $24.95
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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...- $23.99
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Vendor: John Coyne
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan
Returning as an honored guest to the exclusive country club where he worked in his youth, Jack Handley remembers the summer of '46 when he caddied for Ben Hogan in the last Chicago Open. Now a respected historian, Jack recounts to the assembled sons...- $20.99
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Vendor: Peter Geye
The Ski Jumpers
Now in paperback: a writer and former ski jumper facing a terminal diagnosis takes one more leap--into a past of soaring flights and broken family bonds A brilliant ski jumper has to be fearless--Jon Bargaard remembers this well. His memories of daring leaps and...- $25.95
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Vendor: Louis A. Buckley
A Curveball From Heaven
Author: Louis A. BuckleyISBN-10: 1410761274ISBN-13: 9781410761279Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2003Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d- $19.95
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Vendor: T. Jefferson Parker
Crazy Blood
A brave and daring writer. --Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the...- $19.99
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Vendor: James Earl
High in the Bavarian Alps
Explore the magical paradise of Bavaria, full of wonder and beauty. Visit areas of Germany, Austria and Southern Europe. Civilian employees who work at facilities of the Armed Forces Recreation Center pursue fun adventures in Oberammergau, Berchtesgaden, Munich, Lake Chiemsee, and other locations. Meanwhile,...- $34.50
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Vendor: John K. Gruberg
Tennis Hobo: A Derailed Memoir
Your favorite tennis book may have to step aside for this semi-autobiographical novel. A tennis coach and a writer, John Gruberg has been mentioned on the Tonight Show and in Playboy Magazine. "There are tears in my eyes as I finish this book. Wow,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Amy Daws
Challenge
He's her patient. She's his doctor. They shouldn't. But God, do they want to. Camden Harris, the famously hot, hulk of a footballer is laid up in a London hospital. But his busted knee doesn't stop him from running his well-practiced game on Indie...- $16.99
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Vendor: Amy Daws
End Goal
A Harris Brother Scottish Wedding This short story was first published in the Cocktales Anthology. It reads well as a standalone but will be enjoyed better if you read Challenge first. Only professional footballer, Camden Harris, is cocky enough to elope to Scotland with...- $5.99
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Vendor: Amy Waeschle
Going Over the Falls
Lorna Jacobs grew up surfing Hawaii's challenging waves alongside her wave-obsessed mother, Alex, until a fateful day at the Pipeline shattered their connection. Lorna still remembers how she went over the falls at the deadly wave and nearly drowned while Alex surfed on, uncaring....- $19.95
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The Essential W. P. Kinsella
This career retrospective celebrates the 80th birthday of baseball's greatest scribe, W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), as well as the 25th anniversary of Field of Dreams, the film that he inspired. In addition to his classic baseball tales, W. P. Kinsella is also a...- $15.95
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Vendor: Lenny Levine
Diehard Fan
Eddie Fein is a twelve-year-old boy living in Brooklyn. It's the last week of the 1951 baseball season, and his beloved Dodgers are enduring the epic collapse to the hated Giants that will be punctuated by Bobby Thomson's "shot heard 'round the world."Eddie's love...- $16.99
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Vendor: James y. Bartlett
P.G.A. Spells Death: A Hacker Golf Mystery
If it bleeds...it leads Golf writer Hacker is now TV golf broadcaster Hacker with a sweet new gig on a national network. He has to learn the ins and outs of televising golf, and how to deal with the hyper-intense executive producer and director,...- $17.99
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Vendor: Tricia Trevaskis
The Wildcards
In the era of major sponsors and all time Grand-Slam Champions, can a couple of Aussie wildcard teenagers really make a breakthrough in the world of tennis?Melbourne brothers, Tim and Jack Anderson, find themselves living on their grandparent's farm in rural Victoria. The city...- $15.94
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Vendor: L. M. Reid
Played Out
Never say never.Except, that is the exact word the doctor used when he answered the question when will I be able to play football again?Never.Lost and wanting to be alone, I head back to my small hometown.The house I buy needs a lot of...- $12.99
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Played Out
Never say never.Except, that is the exact word the doctor used when he answered the question when will I be able to play football again?Never.Lost and wanting to be alone, I head back to my small hometown.The house I buy needs a lot of...- $12.99
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Vendor: Glenis Wilson
Dead Lucky
Jump jockey Harry Radcliffe is thrown into another dark mystery when a good friend is left fighting for his life after being struck by a bullet. A day of celebration quickly turns into a nightmare for champion jockey Harry Radcliffe and his friend, horsebox...- $28.99
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The Greatest Course That Never Was
When Charley Hunter first discovered the astonishing golfing prodigy Beau Stedman in The Greatest Player Who Never Lived, he broke the biggest story in golf history. But now, just as Charley is settling down into his budding legal career at a prestigious Atlanta law...- $19.00
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The Hazards of Good Fortune
"An entertaining tale rich in schadenfreude as bad things happen to a hapless billionaire" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Jay Gladstone was born to privilege. He is a civic leader and a generous philanthropist, as well as the owner of an NBA team. But in...- $20.00
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Vendor: Emily Bunney
All the Way
In the game of love, you have to take it all the way... Nice guy defenseman Nate has only ever had one girlfriend-and that didn't end well. Under the strict discipline of his Army father, hockey has always been everything. But after a hot...- $24.99
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Vendor: Orion Gregory
Faults
BEWARE OF THOSE CLOSE TO YOUSydney Livingstone is not the type of person who makes enemies. She's a stunning beauty whose optimism and quick wit draws people to her like a magnet. Struggling to make a living on the pro tennis circuit and hampered...- $14.99
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Vendor: Richard Halvey
The Kingpins of Riverbend
The Kingpins of Riverbend is set in a fictional town along the Mohawk River in upstate New York in 1968. It is about a group of seven pin boys at a local bowling alley who, in one way or another, are confronting their futures...- $15.95
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Heart Attack: A Baseball Fantasy
John McCord's last chance to win a championship is fading away as his Rockets play sub 500 ball for the first two months of the baseball season. The team has a powerful lineup, yet they cannot win with any consistency due to their lack...- $20.95
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The Change Up
BREAKING NEWS: The Bad Boy of Baseball, Maddox Paige, is totally and utterly whipped. Okay, that might not be the headlines in the newspaper this morning, but it's the reality of my current situation. It all started a month ago when I received a...- $16.24
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Vendor: Jeff W. Bens
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...- $25.99
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The First Two Seasons
The First Two Seasons is a humorous yet touching tale of adolescence in the 1980s.Summer in York City is coming to a merciful end after a scorching heatwave. For best friends Willie and B.J., senior year at El Dorado High holds the promise of...- $22.95
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A Whole New Ball Game: The Games People Play 2
At the end of Thacker's previous novel - The Games People Play - life had given aspiring manager Jon Moreton a good kicking and he was heading for the plane home. He had failed to get his Spanish club, CD Retama, promoted and they...- $14.99
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Vendor: Eden Finley
Hat Trick
Soren: You know what's not fun? Going on a Fiji vacation with four other couples. Especially when recently single.What's even worse is when a past hook-up arrives unannounced.Not only do we have a history, but he's ten years younger and a famous rock star....- $22.99
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Flying Dismount
Starting over was the hard part...right?When Casey started riding again, she thought she'd nailed the tough part. That was before she tried starting over at a new farm, with a new job, in a new city. Casey's horse, James, seems happy enough at Twin...- $18.99
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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.