Sports Fiction
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The sports fiction genre is made up of stories where a sport has an impact on the plot or main character.
Football
The Blindside, by Michael Lewis
Crackback, by John Coy
Dairy Queen, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Bleachers, by John Grisham
Backfield Package, by Thomas J. Dygard
Love, Football, and other Contact Sports, by Alden R. Carter
Damage, by A.M. Jenkins
Gym Candy, by Carl Deuker
Knights of the Hill Country, by Tim Tharp
Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger
QB 1, by Mike Lupica
Roughnecks, by Thomas Cochran
Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham
Perry Skky, Jr. series, by Stephanie Perry Moore
Stupid Fast, by Geoff Herbach
Basketball
Jump Ball, by Mel Glenn
Eagle Blue, by Michael D'Orso
Hoops of Steel, by John Foley
Last Shot, by John Feinstein
Long Shot, by Mike Lupica
Miracle on 49th Street, by Mike Lupica
The Moves Make the Man, by Bruce Brooks
On the Devil's Court, by Carl Deuker
The Outside Shot, by Walter Dean Myers
Players, by Joyce Sweeney
The Rhyming Season, by Edward Averett
Slam!, by Walter Dean Myers
Summer Ball, by Mike Lupica
Taking Sides, by Gary Soto
Travel Team, by Mike Lupica
Tears of a Tiger series, by Sharon Draper
Hoops, by Walter Dean Myers
Playing without the Ball, by Rich Wallace
Baseball
Baseball in April and other stories, by Gary Soto
Dean Duffy, by Randy Powell
Extra Innings, by Robert Newton Peck
A False Spring, by Robert Jordan
Hard Ball, by Will Weaver
Free Radical, by Claire Rudolf Murphy
Hard Hit, by Ann Turner
Under the Baseball Moon, by John H. Ritter
Heart of a Champion, by Mike Lupica
Heat, by Mike Lupica
High Heat, by Carl Deuker
Infield Hit, by Thomas J. Dygard
The Natural, by Bernard Malamud
Out of Order, by A.M. Jenkins
Samurai Shortstop, by Alan Gratz
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup, by Ron Koertge
Shoeless Joe, by W.P. Kinsella
Farm Team, by Will Weaver
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