The following is a compilation of short stories and novels with sporting
themes, characters, and settings, which have been written by female authors.
The majority of this work has been taken from Suzanne Wise’s book, Sports
Fiction for Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of Novels, Plays, Short Stories,
and Poetry with Sporting Themes (New York: Garland Publishing, 1986).
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Novels
Buchanan, Edna. Contents Under Pressure. New York: Hyperion,
1992.
The plot centers on the disturbing and death of a fictional Raider
quarterback who has been deeply involved in community service to troubled
teenagers, never been in trouble with the law, and whose death comes under
the intelligent scrutiny of the heroic Britt Montero, a blonde, slim police
reporter who finds out the truth about Hudson’s death.
Deal, Babs H. The Grail. New York: McKay, 1963.
In this modern version of the Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle, a
college football coach's quest for a 10-0 season is complicated by his
brilliant star quarterback's infatuation with the coach's wife.
Hornung, Patricia, and Moore, Robin. The Season. New York:
Pinnacle Books, 1976.
The wife of former NFL star Paul Hornung depicts a season in the life
of a professional football star, with the emphasis on sex and violence.
Mason, Laura. Team M.D. New York: Ace Books, 1975.
Characters in this story divide their efforts between performances
in the gridiron and in the bedroom.
Smith, Doris Buchanan. Kick a Stone Home. New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell, 1974.
After her parents divorce, Sara finds a haven in sports and becomes
a fullback on the boys football team. Eventually, she learns to cope with
family troubles, friends, and schoolwork. She also learns that growing
up doesn’t mean that she must give up sports.
Warfield, Nicole. Superball. New York: Bantam, 1974.
A novel of pro football from the viewpoint of a "groupie".
AUTOMOBILE RACING
Novels
Airlie, Catherine. The Wheels of Chance. London: Mills & Boon, 1964.
Daniels, Dorothy. Traiter's Road. New York: Prestige Books,
1967.
After an unexpected "Dear Jane" letter from her racing driver fiancée
Alex Linhart, Joyce Bowen travels to Europe to confront him and find out
the truth. Once she joins Alex, she is caught up in a tangle of international
intrigue.
Davis, Julia. Love in the Lead. London: John Gresham, 1967.
Oates, Joyce Carol. With Shuddering Fall. New York: Vanguard,
1964.
Race car driver Shar meets young and beautiful Karen Herz and is caught
in a web of love, violence, and death.
Rudeen, Anne. American Royal. New York: Warner, 1980.
Selena and Hank loved each other as teenagers. Then Selena married
into a prominent political family and Hank fled to England to design and
racecars. Now, without knowing who they are, Hank has fallen in love with
Selena's daughter and signed her son to drive for him on the Grand Prix
circuit. Suddenly Selena returns to his life.
BASEBALL
Short Stories
Dillard, Annie. "From an American Childhood," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are Girls Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 53-55.
Dunkle, Colleen Conn. "Safe at Home," in Aethlon, XIII:2, Spring, 1996, 147-155.
Gebroe, Linda. "No Particular Place to Go," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc.,1994, 126-127.
Geng, Veronica. "What Happened," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 235-236.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. "From Father, with Love," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 26-28.
Hazleton, Lesley. "First Game," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best
Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 6-8.
Henderson, Heather. "The Lefthander," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc.,1994, 259-261.
Israeloff, Roberta. "City Ball," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc.,1994, 79-90.
Leary, Mary. "Poor is Poor, Broke is Broke, and the Game Goes On," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 255-258.
Lemann, Nancy. "From Sportsman's Paradise," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 9-18.
Melin, Charlotte. "Baseball's Comeback," Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, IX:2, Spring, 1992, 139-142.
Neelon, Ann. "World Series," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 26-27.
O'Neill, Molly. "Coming to the Plate," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamondsare a Girl's Best Friend Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1994, 29-40.
Stowe, Rebecca. "Willie Horton," in Nauen, Elinor. Diamonds are a
Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball. Winchester, Mass.: Faber
and Faber, Inc., 1994, 46-49.
Novels
Cohen, Celia. Smokey O. Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1994.
The story is a story of romance between lesbians who happen to play
professional baseball in the Women’s Baseball League a decade or so into
the future.
Fowler, Karen Joy. The Sweetheart Season. New York:
Ballatine Books, 1998.
A story of women who form a baseball team after the end of World War
II.
Griffith, Peggy. The New Klondike: A Story of a Southern Baseball
Training Camp. New York: Jacobsen-Hodgkinson, 1926.
Based on a motion picture script.
Kennedy, Lucy. The Sunlit Field. New York: Crown,
1950.
Irish lass and New England lad follow baseball in Brooklyn in the mid-nineteenth
century.
Lemann, Nancy. Sportsman’s Paradise. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Told by Storey Collier, the novel recounts a summer spent week-ending
in Orient Point, Long Island, "a haven of lost Southerners" in search of
"plain American fun," into which category fall cocktail "hours" that begin
at noon, boating misadventures that usually leave the boats capsized or
adrift, and assorted other adventures. Collier is in love with Hobby Fox,
a former pitcher for Atlanta.
Levy, Jane. Squeeze Play. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
The book chronicles A. B. Berkowitz, a Jewish woman who becomes the
Washington Tribune’s beat reporter for the Senators, through her first
season with the team. A comedy that shows negative and positive attitudes
toward baseball.
Taves, Isabella. Not Bad for A Girl. Philadelphia: M. Evans,
1972.
After Sharon becomes a center fielder for the Cubs, opposing Little
League pitchers are encouraged to throw at her to intimidate her and force
her to leave an all-male team. She and her team win, but her team is ousted
from the league after two games and two victories.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Play Ball. Philadelphia: Westminister, 1955.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Three Loves Has Sandy. New York: Whittlesey House, 1955.
Willard, Nancy. Things Invisible to See. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, Inc., Bantam Books, 1984.
With World War II as a backdrop, the story takes place in Ann Arbor,
Michigan where Twins Ben and Willie make crucial choices in the womb, which
determine their personalities and their destinies. On a dare, Ben hits
a baseball aimed at a white bird into the night. He misses and instead
hits Clare who becomes paralyzed for most of the novel’s duration. A concern
for the universal struggle between the forces of good and evil, and life
and death, leads up to the climax of the story.
BASKETBALL
Short Stories
Andreu, Darien. "The Outside Threat," in Martz, Sandra, ed. More Golden Apples. Manhattan Beach, California: Papier-Mache Press, 1986,14-22.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "Sweat," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 71-76.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "Teamwork," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 90-106.
Boutilier, Nancy. "Hotshot," in Boutilier, Nancy. According to Her Contours. Santa Rosa, Ca.: Black Sparrow Press, 1992, 78-92. Also in Rogers, Sally Fox, ed. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 14-25.
Grant, Stephanie. "Posting-Up," in Levy, E.J., ed. Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers. New York: Avon Books, 1995, 10-32.
Jackson, Margaret Weymouth. "The Hero," in Kelley, Robert F., ed. The Junior Sports Anthology. New York: Howell, Soskin, Publishers, 1945, 99-118.
Jewett, Shay. "Free Throws," Aethlon, VII:1, Fall, 1989, 31-39.
Mason, Bobbi Anne. "State Champions," in Mason, Bobbie Anne. Love Life. New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 133-146.
Nelson, Mariah Burton. "The Former Basketball Player," in Martz, Sandra, ed. Atalanta. Los Angeles: Papier-Mache Press, 1984, 30-33.
Packer, Ann. "Horse," in Schinto, Jeanne, ed. Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories About Sports. New York: Persea Books, 9-29.
Straight, Susan. "Off-Season," in Schinto, Jeanne. Show Me a Hero: Contemporary Stories about Sports. New York: Persea Books, 1995, 127-137.
Whitney, Margaret. "Playing to Win," in Emra, Bruce. Sports in Literature.
Chicago: National Textbook Company, 1992, 272-275.
Novels
Bancroft, Edith. Jane Allen of the Sub Team. Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1917.
Bancroft, Edith. Jane Allen: Right Guard. Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1918.
Bancroft, Edith. Jane Allen: Center. Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1920.
Crary, Margaret. Mexican Whirlwind. New York: Washburn Press
(division of David McKay Co.), 1969.
A Mexican exchange student adapts the fancy footwork of Spanish dancing
to the fast moves of basketball, however something gets lost in the translation.
Garrett, Kristen. Lady Lobo. Norwich: New Victoria, 1993
A short novel covering a year in the life of a young woman from her
final high school basketball game to the conference championship game at
a fictional Oklahoma Tech. The major character, Casey Eillison, is a skillful
point guard and a lesbian who learns how to adjust to life on a large college
campus and in a highly competitive athletic program.
Hart, Carol. Delilah. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
When she grows up, Delilah wants to play professional basketball. In
the mean time, she challenges the man who collects the garbage to free-throw
contests and becomes the captain of her school team.
Knapp, Sally. Sink the Basket. New York: The Junior Literary
Guild and Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953.
Kay Nelson, the captain, shoots the shot that wins the county basketball
championship, but she is worried about not being able to play anymore because
she will graduate. She solves this problem by becoming a coach at the recreation
center.
Madden, Betsy. The All-American Coeds. New York: Criterion,
Division of Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971.
A girl’s basketball team competes against a boys’ team. The girls lose
by one point to allow Joyce, the protagonist, to make her boyfriend and
his teammates "admit that girls can play sports well if they care to work
hard and learn."
Meschery, Joanne. Home and Away. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Moore, Ruth. The Walk Down Main Street. New York: Morrow,
1960.
The story of a small town in Maine that is nuts about its high school
basketball team.
Morrison, Gertrude. Girls of Central High at Basketball, or The Great Gymnasium Mystery. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1914.
Morrison, Gertrude. Girls of Central High on Lake Luna, or The Crew That Won. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1914.
Morrison, Gertrude. Girls of Central High on Track and Field, or the Champions of the School Leagus. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1914.
Revoyr, Nina. A Necessary Hunger. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1997.
The protagonist, Nancy Takahiro, a star forward is defined by her athletic
ability and bound for college to play basketball. Her life becomes more
complicated when her Japanese-American father falls in love with an African-American
woman and brings the woman and her daughter to live in his house.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. A Girl Called Hank. New York: Morrow, 1951.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. A Boy to Remember. Philadelphia: Westminister, 1960.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Basketball Girl of the Year. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Go, Phillips, Go! Philadelphia: Westminister, 1974.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. My Sister Mike. New York: Berkley
Paperbacks, 1963.
Michelle leads her basketball team to victory but her real victory
is winning her boyfriend, Jeff.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Stay to Win. Boston: Lippincott,
1971.
BICYCLING
Short Stories
Morgner, Irmtraud. "Das Duell," in Frauen in der DDR. City of
Publication unknown. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990, 103-106.
Novels
Lambert, Reita. The Noble Art. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
Parent, Gail, and Smith, Andrew. Main Event. New York: Bantam,
1979.
Businesswoman Hilary Cramer, in hock for $350,000, tries to parlay
her contract on fighter Eddie "Kid Natural" Scalon into badly needed cash,
but his bark is much more dangerous than his bite--or his punch. Based
on the authors' screenplay for the movie of the same name.
BOWLING
Short Stories
Johnston, Mary. "A Game of Bowls," in Moult, Thomas, ed. Great Stories
About Sport. London: Stein, 1931, 241-245.
BOXING
Short Stories
Colette. "Les Lutteurs Au Cirque," in La Paix Chez les Betes
(Fayard, edit.)
BULLFIGHTING
Novels
Steen, Marguerite. The Bulls of Parral. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1954.
A daughter inherits her father's love of the bulls that he breeds for
the bullring of Spain and carries on his business after his death. Two
rival matadors compete for her affections.
Steen, Marguerite. Matador. Boston: Little, Brown, 1934.
The story of a former matador and his three sons: Pepe, the bullfighter;
Miguel, the hunchback seduced by Communism; and Juan, the poet.
CAMPING
Short Stories
Butcher, Grace. "So Much Depends upon a Red Tent," in Chapin, Henry
B. Sports in Literature. New York: David McKay and Company, Inc.,
1976, 217-227.
Novels
Yates, Elizabeth. Brave Interval. New York: Coward-McCann,
1952.
Five people, each with a personal problem, take a packing trip into
the Smoky Mountains.
CHEERLEADING
Short Stories
Cushman, Kathleen. "Three Cheers for My Daughter," in Emra, Bruce.
Sports
in Literature. Chicago: National Textbook Company, 1992, 94-96.
CRICKET
Short Stories
Mitford, Mary Russell. "A Country Cricket Match," in Davie, Michael and Davie, Simon. The Faber Book of Cricket. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1987, 72-79.
Mitford, Mary Russell. "Jack Hatch," in Davie, Michael and Davie, Simon. The Faber Book of Cricket. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1987, 349-354.
Mitford, Mary Russell. "Lost and Won," in Moult, Thomas, ed. Great Stories About Sport. London: Stein, 1931, 439-448.
Mitford, Mary R. "Village Cricket," in Scannell, Vernon. Sporting Literature: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, 230-231.
Mitford, Mary Russell. "The Curse of Gentility," in Davie, Michael and
Davie, Simon. The Faber Book of Cricket. Boston: Faber and Faber,
1987, 132-133.
CYCLING
Short Stories
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "The Pass," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 442-54. and in Rogers, Susan Fox, ed. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 181-190.
Boutilier, Nancy. "The Climb," in Boutilier, Nancy. According to Her Contours. Santa Rosa, Ca.: Black Sparrow Press, 1992, 43-48.
Colette. "La Fin D'Un Tour de France," in Dans La Foule (Georges Cres, edit.)
Fleisser, Marieluise. "Radfahren Wider Willen" in Goldman, Bernd and Schwank, Bernhard, eds. Sportgeschichten. Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 1993, 39-44.
Hamilton-Gottlieb, Rose. "Áerodynamic Integrity," in Aethlon,
XIII:2, Spring, 1996, 165-171.
DANCE
Short Stories
Allegra, Donna. "Einbahnstrasse," in Rogers, Sally Fox, ed. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 160-170.
Gert Valeska. "Ich Tanze," in Pfister, Gertrud. Frau und Sport. City of Publication Unknown: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Date of Publication Unknown, 274-276.
Kaffka, Margit. "Diadal," in Tarjan, Tamas. Fakutya: Parbajok, kartyacsatak, jatekok, sportagak a magyar novellisztikaban. Budapest: Magyar Konyvklub, 1994, 65-73
Meyer-Dietrich, Inge. "Jojo," in Secretariat fur gemeinsame Kulturarbeit
inNordrhein Westfalen, Wuppertal. Scriben Lesen Horen. V. 2. Essen:
Klartext Verlag, 1993, 67-68.
DOG RACING
Novels
Moyes, Patricia. The Curious Affair of the Third Dog. New
York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.
Inspector and Mrs. Tibbetts' country vacation involves them in a greyhound
racing murder.
DOG SHOWS
Novels
Cobb, Mary. Top Dog. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960.
Atlantan Jessica Dabney manipulates her problem-ridden family in the
same way she does the world of dog fanciers as she works to move her poodle
into the top ranks of the American Kennel Club.
DOG SLED RACING
Short Stories
Darling, Esther Birdsall. "The Dog Team Race, in Kelley, Robert F.,
ed. The Junior Sports Anthology. New York: Howell, Soskin, Publishers,
1945, 121-143.
Novels
Henry, Sue. Murder on the Iditarod Trail. New York: Avon,
Date of publication unknown.
A string of murders (cut harness, drugs in the dog food, and erased
trail markers) complicate matters until the murderer is apprehended nearly
in sight of the finish line at Nome. The story involves three main characters:
Sgt. Alex Jonson of the Alaska State Troopers, Jessie Arnold, an attractive
and very independent female musher, who becomes attached to Jonson, and
the unnamed murderer, who terrorizes the race from the first day.
FIELD HOCKEY
Short Stories
Gilliland, Jane. "Scotti Scores," St. Nicholas, 50 (1923), 591-595.
Novels
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Today is Mine. Philadelphia: Westminister, 1958.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Victory for Jill. New York: Morrow,
1953.
FISHING
Short Stories
Sagan, Francoise. "La Partie de Peche," in Sagan, Francoise. Des
Yeux de Soie. Paris: Flammarion, 1975, 119-124.
Novels
Cook, Beatrice Gray. Truth Is Stranger Than Fishin'. New York:
Morrow, 1955.
These stories of fact-based fiction about the history of fishing and
its accoutrements include among their characters Confucius, Aristotle,
an English prioress, and Izaak Walton.
Cooper, Barbara. Drown Him Deep. London: Robert Hale, 1966.
Curry, Peggy Simson. Fire in the Water. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1951.
A tale of life in a Scottish fishing village. The title refers to the
call of fishermen when herring rise to the surface at night in a phosphorescent
glow.
Gordon, Caroline. Aleck Maury, Sportsman. New York: Scribner,
1934.
The story of Aleck Maury: his youth in Virginia, years teaching at
small colleges, and his enjoyment of hunting and fishing. Aleck finally
retires to a quiet valley to spend his time fishing.
Guinness, Katherine Doris. Fisherman's End. London: Macdonald, 1958.
Knight, Kathleen Moore. Bait for Murder. Garden City, NY:
Crime Club-Doubleday, 1948.
Elisha Macomber investigates the murder of a man who is visiting Pemberthy
Island to do some sword fishing.
Knight, Kathleen Moore. The Bass Derby Murder. New York: Crime
Club, 1949.
A story of murder against a background of Massachusetts bass fishing.
Messenger, Elizabeth. A Heap of Trouble. London: Robert Hale, 1964.
Ogilvie, Elisabeth. Strawberries in the Sea. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1973.
Rosa Fleming flees a failed marriage, taking the family boat and becoming
a lobster fisher woman. She lives on a remote rocky island, where she tries
to straighten out her life.
Wilson, Hazel Hutchins. The Red Dory. Boston: Little, 1939.
A twelve-year-old boy and his grandfather fish off the Maine coast.
GAMBLING
Novels
Allardyce, Paula. Game of Hazard. London: Ward, Lock, 1955.
Babb, Sandra. The Lost Traveller. London: Reynal, 1958.
Desmond Tannehill lives a peripatetic life as a gambler in the Midwest,
moving on to the next town with his family when he wins too much and attracts
the attention of the local police.
Baker, Amy Josephine. The Temptress: Monte Carlo. London: Hutchinson, 1955.
Borden, Mary. Action for Slander. New York: Harper, 1936.
One English army officer accuses another of cheating at cards and a
trial for slander follows.
Essex, Mary. Forty is Beginning. London: Herbert Jenkins, 952.
Ferber, Edna. Saratoga Trunk. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1941.
Texas cowboy Lint Maroon and his beautiful Clio go to Saratoga in the
1800's to play the horses. There they meet such railroad magnates as the
Vanderbilts and the Morgans, and Clint decides that it is in railroads
rather than the ponies where money is to be made.
Heyer, Georgette. Faro's Daughter. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1942.
The beautiful heroine runs a faro table in a London gambling establishment
of the last century. There she meets Lord Mablethorpe and his cousin Ravenscar,
who become rivals for her affections.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Adventurers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1965.
Sonia and her governess flee before the army during Napoleon's retreat
to Paris in 1813. They meet Charles, a gallant French spy, and survive
by gambling and winning at cards.
GOLF
Short Stories
Kovick, Kris. "The Honest Golfer, or What Begins with a Drive and Ends with a Putt," in Rogers, Susan Fox, ed. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 232-234.
Ormond, Sophie K. "All’s Fair," in Oberfirst, Robert, ed. Anthology of Best Short-Stories. Vol. 6. New York: Frederick Fell, 1958, 319-326.
Sagan, Francoise. "Partway Round the Course," in Sagan, Francoise. Incidental Music. New
York: E. P. Dutton, Inc., 1981, 67-76.
Novels
Cake, Patrick. The Pro-Am Murders. Aptos. CA: Proteus Press,
1979.
A tale of murder during the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Tournament at Pebble
Beach.
Kennard, Mrs. E. The Golf Lunatic and His Cycling Wife. London:
Hutchinson, 1902.
A lady cyclist narrates the adventures of her eccentric husband.
HIKING
Novels
Lathen, Emma. Pick Up Sticks. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1970.
Dapper John Putnam Thatcher, a New York investment banker, sets out
on a vacation hiking the Appalachian Trail but discovers murder instead.
Mitchell, Gladys. Cold, Lone and Still. London: Michael Joseph,
1984.
A young couple takes a hiking trip to Scotland to discover whether
their temperatures would make for a successful marriage. Along the way
they become involved in a murder.
HORSES
Short Stories
O'Hara, Mary. "The Stallion Fight (from Thunderhead)," in Wilding,
Suzanne. Horses in Action. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1972, pp. 19-22.
Russell, Jacqueline. "If You Like Horses," in Kelley, Robert F. ed.
The Sportsman's Anthology.
New York: Howell Soskin, Publishers, 1944, 179-193.
Smith, Betty. "A Horse Falls in Love with Aunt Evy (from ATree Grows in Brooklyn," in Wilding, Suzanne. Horses in Action. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972, pp. 168-172.
Somerville, Edith and Ross, Martin. "Bocock's Mare," in Scannell, Vernon. Sporting Literature: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, 130-134.
Spencer, Elizabeth. "The Girl Who Loved Horses," in Schinto, Jeanne.
Show
Me a Hero: Contemporary Stories about Sports. New York: Persea Books,
1995, 210-226.
HORSE SHOWS
Novels
Howard, Florence Ruth. Green Entry. New York: Morrow, 1940.
A story of the California horse show circuit and of a family involved
in it.
McCaffrey, Anne. Ring of Fear. New York: Dell, 1970.
HORSERACING
Short Stories
Langer, Von Resi. "Rennfahrt," in Gurlitt, Fritz. Sport Brevier. Berlin: Publisher and Date of Publication Unknown, 88-89.
Markham, Beryl. "The Splendid Outcast," Splendid Outcast. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987, 34-47.
McCullers, Carson. "The Jockey," Collected Short Stories and the
Novel the Ballad of the Sad Cafe.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955, 67-71.
Meding, Christine. "Just Because We're Female," in Emra, Bruce. Sports
in Literature. Chicago: National Textbook Company, 1992, 40-41.
Novels
Bagnold, Enid. National Velvet. New York: Morrow, 1935.
A young girl wins a horse in a raffle. With the help of a former jockey,
she trains him as a steeplechaser and rides him in the Grand National--and
wins. Made into a movie of the same name.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Conversion of Con Cregan. London: Hutchinson,
1909.
A lighthearted story of the Irish turf and its characters.
Conyers, Dorothea. Sandy Married. London: Methuen, 1913.
A story about horses and riders, owners and gamblers.
Conyers, Dorothea. Some Happenings of Glendalyne. Hutchinson,
1911.
Eva O'Neill is the ward of the O'Neill, an eccentric with a passion
for horseracing.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Strayings of Sandy. London: Hutchinson, 1906.
Crane, Frances. The Daffodil Blonde. New York: Random House, 1950.
Croker, Mrs. B.M. Beyond the Pale. London: Chatto & Winters,
1897.
A young Irish girl makes her way by training horses.
Dailey, Janet. Bluegrass King. New York: Harlequin, 1977.
Douglas, Mary K. Rival Stables. London: Mellifont Press, 1940.
Eliot, Elizabeth. Starter's Orders. London: Cassell, 1955.
A trainer, wrongly accused of unethical doing, fights to prove his
innocence with the help of a wealthy and beautiful young woman.
Graves, Kathleen Eleanor Cowle. The Third Chance. Adelaide: Rigby, 1970.
Keane, Molly. Conversation Piece. London: Virago, 1991.
This book is a period piece of the sporting life among the Anglo-Irish
in rural Ireland during the golden age before the "terrible" days of independence.
Aside from family chit-chat beside the fireplace or periodic drives in
old roadsters, most of the action in this novel (originally published in
1932) is about sports with episodes involving fly fishing, fox-hunting,
and horses.
Laker, Rosalind. Ride the Blue Riband. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1977.
Oliver Marlowe dies, leaving his three daughters little more than a
number of gambling debts and a half-interest in a racehorse. The story
follows the young women's efforts to pay off the debts and make a life
for themselves. Set in Victorian England.
Ridley, Diana. Wishes Are Horses. London: Ward, Lock, 1951.
Spooner, Glenda. Minority's Colt. London: Cassell, 1952.
Stranger, Joyce. Zara. New York: Viking, 1970.
Richard Proud owns a Yorkshire stud farm. With bills mounting and his
wife suffering from mental problems, he pins all his hopes on Zara, a beautiful
four-year-old mare with tremendous potential.
Way, Margaret. Blaze of Silk. London: Mills & Boon, 1970.
HUNTING
Short Stories
Ackerman, Diane. "From the Moon by Whale Light," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 132-142.
Baker, Alison. "The Heaven of Animals," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting.
Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 88-102.
Beattie, Ann. "Deer Season," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 319-333.
Blaeser, Kimberly M. "Like Some Old Story," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 304-306.
Blew, Mary Clearman. "A Lesson in Hunter Safety," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 276-289.
Dillard, Annie. "Stalking," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 37-60.
Erdrich, Louise. "The Wandering Room," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 23-32.
Fussell, Betty. "On Murdering Eels and Laundering Swine," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 297-303.
Gallager, Tess. "Although I've Never Carried a Gun: Some Notes on Women and Hunting in the Northwest," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 105-11.
Griffin, Susan. "His Power: He Tames What is Wild," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 231-233.
Hoffman, Alice. "From Second Nature," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 237-243.
Houston, Pam. "Dall," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 162-183.
Kafka, Barbara. "Diana, Goddess of the Hunt," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 291-293.
Lucero, Evelina Zuni. "Deer Dance," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 270-272.
Markham, Beryl. "Praise God for the Blood of the Bull," in McCuen, Jo Ray and Winkler, Anthony. Readings for Writers. Seventh Edition. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1991 314-329.
Morris, Mary. "The Glass Wall," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 201-217.
Nelson, Antonya. "Fair Hunt: In the Land of Men," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 145-158.
Oates, Joyce Carol. "The Buck," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 1-18.
Prose, Francine. "From Primitive People," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 115-128.
Rhys, Jean. "On Not Shooting Sitting Birds, in Gilbert, Sandra M. and Gubar, Susan. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women The Tradition in English. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985, 1606-1609.
Rosta, Helen J. "The Hunter," in The Second, Second Story Collective. Imagining Women. Toronto: The Women's Press, 1988, 146-156.
Smiley, Jane. "Full Cry," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 186-198.
Thon, Melanie Rae. "What She Wants," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 66-73.
Williams, Joy. "The Killing Game," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 248-265.
Williams, Terry Tempest. "Deerskin," in Houston, Pam, ed. Women on
Hunting. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press, 1995, 77-84.
Novels
Armitage, Marigold. A Long Way to Go. An Anglo-Irish Near Tragedy.
London: Faber & Faber, 1952.
A playwright and his fiancée move to his Irish country estate,
where hunting enters into their relationship.
Arnow, Harriet. Hunter's Horn. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
A poor mountain farmer's obsession with hunting down a red fox nearly
destroys his family.
Cartland, Barbara. Stars in My Heart. London: Hutchinson,
1957.
An historical romance of Gisela, a young English girl who impersonates
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, so that the Empress can hunt instead of
visiting an old family friend. The friend turns out to be a handsome young
man who falls in love with the woman he thinks is Elizabeth.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Arrival of Antony. New York: Dutton,
1912.
Antony, an orphan brought up as a gentleman, discovers that his real
family are common horse traders. Lots of foxhunting colors the tale.
Conyers, Dorothea. Aunt Jane and Uncle James. London: Arnold,
1908.
Sequel to Peter's Pedigree, below.
Conyers, Dorothea. B.E.N. London: Methuen, 1919.
A story of foxhunting and of Ben, a young orphan who works as a whip.
Conyers, Dorothea. Follow Elizabeth. London: Hutchinson, 1929.
Humorous tales of a man hunting in Ireland.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Best People. London: Hutchinson, 1941.
The title novella in this collection tells the story of poor Narcissus
Fitzbindle, whose mother is determined that he marry into a good family.
She packs him off to meet the "best people" and mingle on the hunting field--only
Narky is frightened to death of horses.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Blighting of Bartram. London: Methuen, 1918.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Boy, Some Horses and a Girl. London:
Arnold, 1908.
Many hunting scenes spice this tale of Irish life.
Conyers, Dorothea. A Kiss for a Whip. London: Hutchinson, 1948.
Conyers, Dorothea. Meave. London: Hutchinson, 1915.
A tale of Irish country folk and hunting.
Conyers, Dorothea. Peter's Pedigree. London: Arnold, 1904.
A sentimental tale of hunting and horse dealing in Ireland.
Conyers, Dorothea. Sally. London: Methuen, 1912.
Love proves a better cure than hunting.
Conyers, Dorothea. The Thorn Bit. London: Hutchinson, 1900.
A tale of life in an Irish village, with the emphasis on hunting.
Conyers, Dorothea. Two Imposters and a Tinker. London: Hutchinson,
1910.
A story of the Irish horsey set.
Feversham, Anne Dorothy Slingsby. Strange Stories of the Chase: Stories of Fox Hunting and the Supernatural. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1972.
McClary, Jane McIlvaine. A Portion for Foxes. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1972.
Shelly, daughter of a great but now money-less Southern family, is
attracted to Zagaran, the brash Yankee who has purchased her ancestral
home. Foxhunting plays a major role in the struggle of people from different
worlds to find a meeting ground.
McNeilly, Mildred Masterson. Great is the Glory. London: Jarrolds, 1946.
Mannin, Ethel Edith. At Sundown the Tiger. New York: Putnam,
1951.
All women, it seems, are passionately attracted to Raymond Fern. He,
on the other hand, prefers to hunt tigers in India.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kennan. South Moon Under. New York: Scribner, 1933.
Self, Margaret Cabell. Red Clay Country. New York: Harper,
1936.
A tale of foxhunting in the Virginia countryside.
Skrine, Mary Lesta. Point-to-Point. [English Title: Conversation
Piece]. London: Collins, 1933.
The story of the Pulleyns and their devotion to riding and foxhunting
in Ireland.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. All on the Irish Shore;
Irish Sketches. New York: Longmans, 1903.
A collection of often humorous sketches and tales set in the Irish
country house society, many involving hunts and races. Similar titles are
listed below.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. Further Experiences
of an Irish R.M.. New York: Longmans, 1908.
Stories of an English ex-army officer who takes a post as a resident
magistrate in Ireland and has many adventures as he tries to become accustomed
to the Irish fox-hunting set and their complex family relationships. Additional
tales of the Irish R.M. are listed below. The stories were adapted to television
as The Irish R.M.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. In Mr. Knox's County. New York: Longmans, 1915.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. A Irish Cousin. New York: Longmans, 1903.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. The Irish R.M. and His Experiences. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928.
Somerville, Eidth Oenone and Ross, Martin. The Silver Fox. New York: Longmans, 1900.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. New York: Longmans, 1899.
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Ross, Martin. Some Irish Yesterdays.
New York: Longmans, 1906.
Young Lant Jacklin hunts for a living in the Florida scrub country.
This is the story of his inability to adapt to the mores of civilization.
Somerville, Edith Oeone, and Ross MArtin. Dan Russel the Fox. London: Methuen, 1911.
Stace, Marjorie. The Piper in Scarlet. London: Hutchinson, 1954.
Stevenson, Dorothy Emily. The House of the Deer. London: Collins,
1970.
Gerald Burleigh-Brown takes a holiday in the Scottish Highlands to
do some hunting.
Stranger, Joyce. The Running Foxes. New York: Viking, 1966.
A story of life in a village in England's Lake District, where the
inhabitants still hunt afoot with their hounds.
ICE HOCKEY
Novels
Alguire, Judith. Iced! Norwich: New Victoria, 1995.
This is a story of professional women’s ice hockey team. The story
is told by Alison Gutherie, the player/coach of the Toronto Teddies of
the newly-formed Women’s Professional Hockey League. Gutherie is also a
lesbian who finds herself attracted to one of her players.
ICE SKATING
Novels
Ball, Donna. Winner; A Love Story. New York: St. Martin's,
1982.
Two singles skaters are persuaded by their coach to become a pairs
team. They experience success and a world title is within their grasp when
one of them is injured.
Philips, Meredith. Death Spiral: Murder at the Winter Olympics.
New York: Perseverance Press, 1984.
British figure skater Lesley Grey competes for Olympic gold and has
a romantic fling with a Russian skater. Meanwhile, a murderer lurks in
the background.
MARTIAL ARTS
Short Stories
Moore, Christine Palamidessi. "The Belly," Aethlon, VIII:1, Fall,
1990, 55-60.
MOUNTAINEERING
Short Stories
Bell, Gertrude. "A Rock Climb in Switzerland," in Rice, Grantland and Powel, Harford, eds.The Omnibus of Sport. New York: The Junior Literary Guild and Harper and Brothers, 1932, 925-926.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "The Place Before Language," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seal Press, 1995, 107-161.
Brook, Elaine. "Rites of Passage," in Salkeld, Audrey and Smith, Rosie. One Step in the Clouds: An Omnibus of Mountaineering Novels and Short Stories. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990, 202-206.
Sauvy, Anne. "Time Reversal," in Salkeld, Audrey and Smith, Rosie, eds. One Step in the Clouds: An Omnibus of Mountaineering Novels and Short Stories. San Francisco: Sierra Books, 1990, 105-108.
Sauvy, Anne. "2084" in Salkeld, Audrey and Smith, Rosie, eds. One
Step in the Clouds: An Omnibus of Mountaineering Novels and Short Stories.
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990, 218-224.
Novels
Cannan, Joanna Maxwell. The Hour of the Angel. [alternate
title: Ithuriel's Hour]. London: Pan Books, 1949.
An expedition to scale an unconquered mountain in the Himalayas is
led by Sir Lement Vyse, an arrogant man whose misjudgments lead to tragedy.
Clements, Eileen Helen. High Tension. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
Coxhead, Elizabeth. One Green Bottle. Philadelphia: Lippincott,
1951.
The discovery of mountain climbing changes young Cathy Canning's life.
Kent, Nora. The Twilight of Hester Lorimar. London: Macdonald, 1965.
McNeill, Janet. Search Party. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
Moffat, Gwen. Hard Option. London: Victor Gollancz, 1975.
Owen Parry leads a rescue party up a Welsh mountain. The author is
herself a climber.
Mottat, Gwen. Miss Pink at the Edge of the World. New York:
Scribner, 1975.
While visiting a friend on the Irish coast, Miss Pink, an avid climber
and also a Justice of the Peace, investigates the deaths of two climbers
under suspicious circumstances.
Mottat, Gwen. Over the Sea to Death. New York: Scribner, 1976.
Miss Melinda Pink investigates the murder of a young woman on a craggy
island off the Scottish coast. There is lots of mountaineering action.
Raymond, Diana Jean. The Climb. London: Cassell, 1962.
Graeme Muir, a man driven to ever more difficult climbs, attempts to
scale a very challenging Swiss peak. While he and his party endure hardships
and dangers on the mountain, his wife and his mistress await his return
in a hotel at its foot.
Rooke, Daphne. Boy on the Mountain. London: Victor Gollancz, 1969.
Strawbridge, Anne West. Above the Rainbow. New York: Stackpole,
1938.
Hannah was "born out of turn." The spirit of Edward, whose place she
has usurped, dominates her and pushes her to ever greater athletic accomplishments:
riding, swimming, and mountaineering.
RACQUETBALL
Short Stories
Weinstein, Sharon. "The Tournament," Arete The Journal of Sport Literature,
II:1, Fall, 1984, 131-139.
ROCK CLIMBING
Short Stories
Rogers, Susan Fox. "First Love, Second Love," in Rogers, Susan Fox,
ed. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1994, 171-180.
RODEO
Short Stories
Shange, Ntozake. "Ridin’ the Moon in Texas," in Gibson, Mary Ellis,
ed. Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers. University
of South Carolina Press, 1991, 223-228.
RUNNING
Short Stories
Bambara, Toni Cade. ""Raymond's Run," in Battista, Garth, ed. The Runner's Literary Companion. New York: Breakaway Books, 1994, 131-139. Also in Dean, Nancy and Stark, Mrya, eds. In the Looking Glass. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977, 249-258.
Eidus, Janice. "Running," in Martz, Sandra, ed. Atalanta. Los Angeles: Papier-Mache Press, 1984, 6-10.
Levin, Jenifer. "Her Marathon," in Rogers, Susan Fox. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 145-159.
Maitland, Sara. "The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Runner," in Battista, Garth, ed. The Runner’s Literary Companion. New York: Breakaway Books, 1994, 87-94.
Natt, Rochelle. "A Runner's Romance," in Martz, Sandra, ed. More Golden Apples. Manhattan Beach, California: Papier-Mache Press, 1986, 30-31.
Oates, Joyce Carol. "Running," in Battista, Garth, ed. The Runner's Literary Companion. New York: Breakaway Books, 1994, 245-251.
Paley, Grace. "The Long-Distance Runner," in Hills, L. Rust, ed. Great Esquire Fiction: the Finest Stories from the First Fifty Years. New York: Viking Press, 1983, 387-402.
Rossi, Christina Peri. "Breaking the Speed Record," in Correas De Zapata, Celia. Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1990, 153-155.
Weinstein, Sharon. "Jogging at the V.A.," Aethlon, VI:1, Fall,
1988, 79-90.
Novels
Abercrombie, Barbara. Run for Your Life. New York: Morrow,
1984.
Sarah Hoyt, a mother of teenagers who is a runner and writes detective
fiction, finds real mystery and danger in marathon competition.
Barnes, Linda. Dead Heat. New York: St. Martin's, 1984.
Michael Spraggue investigates when a U.S. senator and his bodyguard
collapse unexpectedly while running in the Boston Marathon.
Knudsen, R. R. Fox Running. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
Knudsen, R. R. Hagen’s Marathon. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
Knudsen, R. R. Zanballer. New York: Delacorte, 1972.
Two women runners train for the Olympics. One is a Native American
who is used to running freely; the other is a former medalist who has lost
her confidence.
Trott, Susan. The Housewife and the Assassin. New York: St.
Martin's, 1979.
Augusta is writing a book on where to jog in the world's great cities.
As she does the "legwork" for the book, she is joined in her running by
Ephraim, a for-hire assassin who has accepted a contract to kill her.
Warren, Patricia Nell. The Front Runner. New York: Morrow,
1974.
Harlan Brown narrates the story of his training Billy Sive into a bright
prospect as a long-distance runner in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Billy
and Harlan are also lovers until Billy abruptly ends the relationship in
Montreal.
SKATING
Short Stories
Zeman, Brenda. "Spiral," Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature,
VIII:2, Spring, 1991, 57-62.
SKIING
Short Stories
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "Solo," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 27-36.
Sagan, Francoise. "L'Homme Etendu," in Sagan, Francoise. Des Yeux
de Soie. Paris: Flammarion, 1975, 45-53.
Novels
Baldwin, Faith. White Magic. New York: Farrar, 1939.
A mixed bag of individuals are focused together when they are stranded
in a Sun Valley cabin by a blizzard.
Boyle, Kay. His Human Majesty. New York; McGrw-Hill, 1949.
In 1944, a group of skiers train in the Colorado mountains for a military
operation in Europe.
Carnac, Carol. Crossed Skis. London: Collins, 1952.
Galen, Nina. The Rennlaufer. New York: Dutton, 1967.
People from a variety of backgrounds meet at an Austrian ski lodge.
The Rennlaufer is the local ski champion.
Hall, Oakley. The Downhill Racers. New York: Viking, 1963.
This is the story of four young American skiers. As they follow the
skiing season across the country, their lives become entwined and the pressure
to excel both on and off the slopes intensifies.
Hall, Oakley. The Pleasure Garden. New York: Viking, 1966.
A group of people who both loved and hated Dick Macklin, founder of
the Pleasure Garden ski resort in the High Sierra, gather there for Christmas
nine years after his death. The meeting results in some deep self-searching.
Hoy, Elizabeth. The Girl in the Green Valley. London: Mills & Brown, 1973.
Lathen, Emma. Going for the Gold. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1981.
Banker-detective John Putnam Thatcher is called in when counterfeit
checks begin turning up at the Lake Placid Olympics.
Moye, Patricia. Dead Men Don't Ski. New York: Rinehart, 1960.
An inspector from Scotland Yard who is on a skiing holiday in the Tyrolean
Alps becomes involved in a murder.
Spain, Nancy Brooker. Death Goes on Skis. London: Hutchinson, 1949.
Thompson, Willa. Garden Without Flowers. Boston: Beacon Press,
1957.
Helen Duvier falls for handsome Ruedi Vilprecht while on a skiing trip.
One day as they ski together, Helen has a serious accident.
Vernon, Marjorie. Love Has Jagged Edges. London: Ward, Lock, 1967.
Whitney, Phyllis A. Snowfire. Garden City, NY: Doubleday,
1973.
Julian and Margot McCabe own a ski resort in the Pocono Mountains.
When Margot is killed in a suspicious looking accident, the police arrest
Stuart Parrish, Julian's young skiing protege. Stuart's stepsister Linda
works to discover the real murderer.
Winchester, Kay. Wealth of Love. London: Ward, Lock, 1966.
Yorke, Margaret. Silent Witness. New York: Walker, 1975.
Liz Morris and her friend Patrick investigate the murder of a fellow
skier at an Austrian ski resort cut off from the outside world by blizzard
and avalanche conditions.
SKY DIVING
Short Stories
Emerson, Gloria. "Take the Plunge," in Emra, Bruce. Sports in Literature.
Chicago: National Textbook Company, 1992, 90-92.
SOCCER/FOOTBALL
Novels
Jenkins, Robin. The Thistle and the Grail. London: Macdonald,
1954.
A story of life in a Scottish village that dotes on its soccer team.
SOFTBALL
Short Stories
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "State of Grace," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 3-26.
Sommers, Robbi. "From the Sidelines," in Rogers, Susan Fox, ed. Sportsdykes: Stories from On and Off the Field. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 209-215.
Woodward, Caroline. "Sliding Home," in The Second, Second Story Collective.
Imagining
Women. Toronto: The Women's Press, 1988.
Novels
Cooney, Ellen. All the Way Home. New York: Putnam, 1984.
The flagging community spirit of a New England village is revitalized
when Gussie Cabrini roars into town on her motorbike. A gifted athlete,
Gussie whips the female population into a softball team and arranges a
game with the rough, tough Hartford Belles.
Due, Linnea A. High and Outside. New York: Harper & Row,
1980.
Nikki has everything a teenager could want--a supportive family, intelligence,
athletic ability--but she is forced to face the terrifying truth that she
is an alcoholic.
Vogan, Sara. In Shelley's Leg. New York: Knopf, 1981.
A bar called Shelley's Leg sponsors a women's softball team and is
the setting for much of the action in this first novel. Margaret, pitcher
for the team, is trying to make her lover, a footloose musician, settle
down, but his attention turns to Margaret's best friend Rita, the team
catcher.
SPORT
Short Stories
Bledsoe, Lucy. Jane. "Sex is an Ancient Practice" in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 37-41.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "The Night Danny was Raped," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 77-86.
Eidus, Janice. "The Dreaded Female Locker Room Talk," in Martz, Sandra, ed. Atalanta. Los Angeles: Papier-Mache Press, 1984, 22-24.
Goodloe, Abbe Carter. "Revenge," College girls. Illus. By Charles Dana
Gibson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895, 165-185.
Novels
Wintrebert, Joelle. Les Olympiades Truquees. Paris. Fleuve
Noir, 1987.
SQUASH
Short Stories
Gilbert, Helen. "A Game of Angles," Aethlon: The Journal of Sport
Literature, VIII:1, Fall, 1990, 169-173.
SWIMMING
Short Stories
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. "Under the Cabana," in Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. Sweat. Seattle: Seal Press, 1995, 55-70.
Casper, Claudia. "The Day Wee Floated Down the River," in The Second Story Collective. Imagining Women. Toronto: The Women's Press, 1988, 127-129.
Gomez, Jewelle L. "A Swimming Lesson," in Busby, Margaret, ed. Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent: From the Ancient Egyptian to the Present. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992, page numbers unknown.
Lessing, Doris. "Through the Tunnel," in Schwed, Peter and Wind, Herbert Warren. Great Stories from the World of Sport. Toronto: Heinemann, 1958, 130-138.
Jakobsdottir, Svava. "Swimming," in Clareus, Ingrid, ed. Scandinavian Women Writers An Anthology from the 1880's to the 1980's. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989, 219-222
Ribnikar, Tara. "Grandad and the Birds," in Indian Council for Cultural Relations. An Anthology of Yugolsav Short Stories. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1969, page number unknown.
Shreve, Susan Richards. "The Locker Room," in Cheuse, Alan and Marshall Caroline, eds. The Sound of Writing. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, date of publication and page number unknown.
Wood, Monica. "Disappearing," in Schinto, Jeanne. Show Me a Hero:Contemporary
Stories about Sport. New York: Persea Books, 1995,166-169.
Novels
Anshaw, Carol. Aquamarine. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
The color aquamarine represents infinite possibilities in the life
of swimmer Jesse Austin, silver-medal winner for the hundred-meter freestyle
at the 1968 Olympics. But Australian swimmer Marty Finch took the gold,
and she also took Jesse’s aching heart. That was in 1968, and in 1990,
40-year-old Jesse is still living daily with the pain of that loss.
French, Dorothy. Swim to Victory. Boston: Lippincott, 1969.
Ten-year-old Mary Lou loses weight and gains confidence through competitive
swimming.
Lesser, Ellen. The Blue Streak. New York: Grover Weidenfeld,
1992.
The story is told of four days in the life of Danny Winger, a recent
Ivy League graduate and former swimming star whose streak of blue ribbons
ended with tendonitis of the shoulder. The novel begins when Danny’s mother
calls to say his father had died more-or-less unexpectedly and ends the
day after the funeral – four days that give Danny plenty of opportunities
to come to terms with the emotional ambivalence he has felt for as long
as he can remember toward his domineering father.
Levin, Jenifer. Sea of Light. New York: Dutton, 1993.
Levin, Jenifer. Water Dancer New York: Poseidon Press, 1982.
Sarge closes his swim training camp after his son dies trying to swim
the treacherous San Antonio Straits. Then Dorey Thomas shows up on his
doorstep and convinces him to train her for the same swim.
TENNIS
Short Stories
Gilchrist, Ellen. "In the Land of Dreamy Dreams," in Gilchrist, Ellen. In the Land of Dreamy Dreams. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1981, 60-71.
Smith, Barbara. "Playing the Game," Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature, V:1, Fall, 1987, 135-141.
Van Winckel, Nance. "Coming To," in Schinto, Jeanne. Show Me a Hero: Contemporary Stories about Sports. New York: Persea Books, 1995, 97-103.
Wardrop, Daneen. "Kids at the Zoo," in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport
Literature, XII:1, Fall, 1994, 27-40.
Novels
Aldridge, Janet. The Meadow-Brook Girls on the Tennis Courts, or Winning Out in the Big Tournament. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., 1914.
Boyar, Jane, and Boyar, Burt. World Class. New York: Random
House, 1975.
This story of professional tennis revolves around several world class
players. As the action follows the tour from country to country, we learn
about their backgrounds and what the game means to them.
Brown, Rita Mae. Sudden Death. New York: Bantam, 1983.
This story revolves around money, power plays and homosexual liaisons
on the women's pro tennis circuit. Star Carmen Semana must choose between
her love for Harriet and her tennis popularity and the lucrative endorsements
that go with it.
Clarke, Anna. Game, Set and Danger. Garden City, NY: Doubleday
Crime Club, 1981.
Helen Boyden and Marianne Weiss had played doubles together on the
pro tennis circuit prior to their marriages twenty years earlier. When
Helen hears that Marianne's artist husband Karl has been killed in a fall,
she goes to Germany to be with Marianne and to determine whether Karl's
death was the accident it seems.
Clavering, Molly. Results of the Finals. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957.
De Beauville, Guillemette. Alyette Championne Cadette de Tennis. Paris: Editions Alsatia, 1957.
Gilbert, Nan. Champions Don’t Cry. New York: Harper and Row,
1960.
Sally learns what it means to be a champion and not a quitter when
she enters a tennis tournament and reaches the finals where she must play
with a broken racket.
Friend, Alona. Mixed Doubles. New York: Greystine, 1940.
Action on the women's pro tennis tour focuses on a tournament in the
West Indies and a star player whose life off the court is a failure.
Grahame, Jean Alison. Perdita Finds Herself. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944.
Jacobs, Helen Hull. Center Court. Cranbury, NY: 1950.
Jacobs, Helen Hull. Judy, Tennis Ace. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1951.
Jacobs, Helen Hull. Laurel for Judy. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945.
Jacobs, Helen Hull. Proudly She Serves. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953.
Jacobs, Helen Hull. The Tennis Machine. New York: Scribner, 1972.
Lamott, Anne. Crooked Little Heart. New York: Pantheon Books,
1997.
At the center of this novel is Elizabeth Ferguson, a recovering alcoholic,
who is grieving over Andrew’s death. Her daughter Rosie is an emerging
tennis star who is much in need of her mother’s comfort. The novel becomes
interesting when Rosie confesses that she has been cheating.
Lenglen, Suzanne. The Love Game; Being the Life Story of Marcelle
Penrose. New York: Greenberg, 1925.
The story of a girl and her adventures playing lawn tennis. Lenglen,
a French woman, was an international tennis star in the 1920’s.
Lunemann, Evelyn. Tennis Champ. West Chester, IL: Benefic Press, 1972.
Navratilova, Martina and Nickles, Liz. Breaking Point. City of publication
unknown: Villard Books, 1996.
Jordan Myles, a retired tennis pro, is attending one of the grandest
parties of the season, and a womann is killed. Jordan senses a cover-up
and attempts to find the killer.
Navratilova, Martina and Nickles, Liz. Killer Instinct: A Jordan
Myles Mystery. City of publication unknown: Villard Books, 1997.
Jordan Myles, a retired world-class tennis pro finds the Desert Springs
Sports Science Center a dream come true. But when many of the world-famous
clients begin to suffer from sudden, mysterious collapses, Myles discovers
that the brutal competition of the tennis world does not compare with the
possibility of murder.
Navratilova, Martina and Nickles, Liz. The Total Zone. City
of publication unknown: Ballantine Books, 1995.
Jordan Myles, a tennis pro who becomes a physical therapist, works
with high profile celebrities at the fashionable Palm Springs spa where
she works. A teen tennis star tangled up in suicide and murder turns Myles
into a sleuth.
Sanderlin, Owenita. Match Point. Racine, WI: Golden Press, 1979.
Spain, Nancy Brooker. Poison in Play. London: Hutchinson, 1946.
Towne, Mary. First Serve. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Heartbreak Tennis. Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1977.
Walden, Amelia Elizabeth. Queen of the Courts. Philadelphia: Westminister, 1959.
Wills, Helen Newington, and Murphy, Robert W. Death Serves an
Ace. New York: Scribner, 1939.
A detective story set in the tennis world.
TRACK AND FIELD
Short Stories
Cooper, Cynthia L. "Margarethe `Gretel' Bergmann from How She Played the Game," in Martz, Sandra, ed. More Golden Apples. Manhattan Beach, California: Papier-Mache Press, 1986, 35-38.
Gilchrist, Ellen. "Revenge," in Schinto, Jeanne, ed. Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories About Sports. New York: Persea Books, 1995, 179-191.
McCary, Annie. "Breaking the Color-line," in Kanwar, Asha, ed. The
Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American
Women (1859-1993). San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1993, 75-79.
WEIGHT TRAINING
Short Stories
Eidus, Janice. "The Resolution of Muscle," in Martz, Sandra, ed. Atalanta.
Los Angeles: Papier-Mache Press, 1984, 17-18.
WRESTLING
Novels
Cody, Liza. Bucket Nut. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
The protagonist, Eva Wylie, is a young woman who lives on the edges
of London protection rackets, prostitution, and professional wrestling.
In this mystery, Eva lives in a world of athletic aspirations and her unwitting
involvement in a war between two protection racket bosses. In her day job,
she is a security guard at an auto parts job.
Cody, Liza. Monkey Wrench. New York: Warner, 1995.
Eva Wylie is banned from training and discovers that beneath her male
teammates’ tolerance of her is a deep contempt, a murderous alienation
of the sexes. Her idealized sister remains unfound, settlement of the racketeers’
war, and arrest of the serial killer take place all behind her back.