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The Home of the Trekkers    by Jon Sindell
Price: Free! 1970 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

In this excerpt from the novel The Mighty Roman, the San Carlos Coyotes of the independent Cal Hairy League meet the Tulare Trekkers and their spindly graybearded mascot Pathfinder. Holla! Walloo!
Light Tower Power    by Jon Sindell
Price: Free! 960 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

In this short adapted from the novel The Mighty Roman, Roman Meister, a gargantuan former minor-league home run champ and manager of the sub-minor-league San Carlos Coyotes, takes his mighty bat THOR in hand to put on a show for his eighteen-year-old charges.
El León    by Jon Sindell
Price: Free! 650 words. Language: English. Published on May 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

Baseball fans, has your team ever had a closer you just couldn't stand? Meet El León.
Joy In Mudville    by Gordon McAlpine
Price: $4.99 USD. 63510 words. Language: English. Agented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency  on May 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

It's 1932 and a new star has risen from the east, arching toward Los Angeles. A man, woman and child set off by rail from Chicago to follow the star. Along the way they'll meet figures from the American imagination who make us the people we are today: Woody Guthrie, Clark Kent, Al Capone, Babe Ruth, and more. And when the three find their fates, the stars that guide us all will be forever changed.
The Legend of League Park    by Amy Stilgenbauer
Price: $3.99 USD. 48570 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

In a sport like baseball, it can be hard for a girl to make her mark. Just don't count Gioia and Audrey out just yet.
The Prospect    by Zack Drisko
Price: $0.99 USD. 6040 words. Language: English. Published on May 9, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

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"The Prospect" is a short story about the longing and passion for an unrealized dream. Austin Colt is a pitching phenom who struggles to adapt when his baseball career doesn’t go as planned.
The American Golfer: A Novel of Sexual Addiction    by Joseph Veramu
Price: $0.99 USD. 20540 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

Rider Hood is the most successful golfer in the history of the sport. He has everything in life; a beautiful super-model wife, a business empire worth $3 billion and the adulation of billions of fans but he has a terrible secret that threatens to destroy him. Will he be able to overcome his weakness and rise to greater heights or will he succumb to its overpowering tentacles?
Dreams and Baseball (Bottom of the Inning)    by Reagan Rothe
Price: $4.99 USD. 65220 words. Language: English. Published by Black Rose Writing  on May 1, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

1999 was a year unlike any other for Jeff Hartes. He met the love of his life, experienced surreal, life-like dreams, and lost so much in a single, Triple-A season of baseball.
Il mistero della racchetta perduta - Ping-Pong    by Enzo Pettinelli
Price: $0.99 USD. 5860 words. Language: Italian. Published on April 26, 2012. Fiction » Children’s books » Sports & Recreation / General.

Ci sono l’estate, il mare e il vento. E i venti sono quelli buoni, le brezze leggere. Il racconto parla della parabola della vita: la coglie nel punto in cui comincia a salire verso l’alto e la fa incontrare col punto in cui comincia a scendere verso il basso. Una magia possibile per chi sa raccontare, ed Enzo Pettinelli la racconta attraverso la straordinaria metafora del ping-pong.
Carl’s Hat Wins Marathon: a short story    by Jeff Posey
Price: $0.99 USD. 4640 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Sports.

At age ninety-two, the last surviving player from Super Bowl XXI in 1987, Carl decides to win the New York Marathon or die trying. And that’s exactly what he does. In front of the world’s cameras, he crashes to the ground, finished. But his hat doesn’t stay finished. Runner after runner picks it up and relays it to the front-runners, where a battle of epic proportion ensues to get Carl’s hat acro