Some of the best sports writing is fiction, in novels or short stories. A hundred years ago the Chicago columnist Ring Lardner was lionized as not merely the best sportswriter, but one of the very best writers of his time. P.G Wodehouse \u2013 possibly the funniest man ever to bang away on a typewriter \u2013 wrote short stories about golf that a non-golfer like myself can enjoy.<\/p>\n
The Goodreads site, a gathering of regular folks who like to read, has a list of favorite sports fiction<\/a> voted on by members. It\u2019s a real mix, from John Grisham\u2019s novel about a football failure to a Middle-Grade book about a young Latina girl who is picked as a goalkeeper. There should be something for everyone there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of the best sports writing is fiction, in novels or short stories. A hundred years ago the Chicago columnist Ring Lardner was lionized as not merely the best sportswriter, but one of the very best writers of his time. P.G Wodehouse \u2013 possibly the funniest man ever to bang away on a typewriter \u2013 … Continue reading “Classic Sports Fiction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}