Sports Fiction
Winning His Game
Dudley Baker is new to Grafton School. Like many rookie students he finds himself feeling out of place amongst the strange new faces he enco…
Short Works on Sports
A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…
Casey at the Bat
Casey at the Bat is a celebrated poem that captures the spirit of baseball and the drama of a pivotal moment in a game. Set in a small town,…
Marjorie Dean, High School Junior
In her Junior year at high school, Marjorie faces a new foe. Rowena Farnham is clever and calculating and her antics threaten Sanford High's…
The Rockspur Eleven
A fine football story for boys. This is another dime novel from the author of the Frank Merriman series. (Summary by Burt L. Standish)
That Football Game
The boy world is in an ecstasy of delight, for Father Finn has not only given us a new story, but, positively, the best book he has ever wri…
The Arrival of Jimpson
This offering, "The Arrival of Jimpson, and Other Stories for Boys About Boys" contains eleven short stories by the prolific autho…
The Set-Up
The Set-Up is the classic epic hard-edged poem of an aging African American boxer who is set up to take a fall in the ring against a younger…
The Secret Play
Clearfield High School football team has no coach. Its players will have to search for a new one, and get ready for the next football season…
Mighty Roman Shorts
The Mighty Roman is a baseball book for today, a funny, freewheeling novel about modern American manhood. It’s a modern Mutiny On The Bounty…
One Fall
With one kick, Joey Hamilton has sent the world of professional wrestling into chaos. In his first World Title match, on national television…