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• Sports stories

• Football fiction

• Dick Hamilton's Football Team: or, A Young Millionaire on the Gridiron (Cleveland: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1912), by Howard Roger Garis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf (1909), by Ralph Henry Barbour, illust. by B. West Clinedinst (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The High School Left End: or, Dick and Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The Rockspur Eleven: A Fine Football Story for Boys (New York: Street and Smith, c1900), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Touchdown, and After (New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Gardner Hunting (page images at HathiTrust)
• The High School Captain of the Team: or, Dick and Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1910), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Winning Touchdown: A Story of College Football (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1911), by Lester Chadwick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• American Boy Sports Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1947), ed. by Griffith Ogden Ellis, contrib. by Robert C. Zuppke (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The High School Freshmen: or, Dick and Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)

• Catcher Craig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1915), by Christy Mathewson, illust. by C. M. Relyea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dick Merriwell's Assurance: or, In His Brother's Footsteps (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1904), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dick Merriwell's Backers: or, Well Worth Fighting For (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1907), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)
• Dick Merriwell's Day: or, Iron Nerve (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1904), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dick Merriwell's Heroic Players: or, How the Yale Nine Won the Championship (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1912), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics: or, Dick and Co. Make Their Fame Secure, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The High School Pitcher: or, Dick and Co. on the Gridley Diamond, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• Lefty Locke, Pitcher-Manager (New York and Newark: Barse and Co., c1916), by Burt L. Standish, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Our Base Ball Club and How it Won the Championship (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1884), by Noah Brooks, contrib. by A. G. Spalding
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard
• The Shortstop, by Zane Grey (PDF at arfalpha.com)
• Won in the Ninth (New York: R. J. Bodmer Co., 1910), by Christy Mathewson, ed. by W. W. Aulick, illust. by Felix Mahony (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young Pitcher, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Frank Merriwell's Support: or, A Triple Play (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1901), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Humming Bird (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1910), by Owen Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rover Boys on a Tour: or, Last Days at Brill College (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Mr. Evans: A Cricketo-Detective Story (London: Macmillan and Co., 1922), by Cyril Alington
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Maracot Deep, and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1929), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Spell of the White Sturgeon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1953), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• A Pilgrimage of Anglers (Hartford: Connecticut printers, c1952), by Eugene E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The High School Boys' Fishing Trip: or, Dick and Co. in the Wilderness, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• Blue Nets and Red Sails (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1936), by Helen Bradley Preston, illust. by Margaret Temple Braley (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Out With Gun and Camera: or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• Young Hunters of the Lake: or, Out With Rod and Gun (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• Budd Boyd's Triumph: or, The Boy-Firm of Fox Island (New York: A. L. Burt, c1890), by William P. Chipman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Girl on the Boat, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text)
• The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf (1909), by Ralph Henry Barbour, illust. by B. West Clinedinst (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Drives and Puts: A Book of Golf Stories (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1899), by Walter Camp and Lilian Brooks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Divots (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1927), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Natural-Born Proud: A Revery (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2010), by S. R. Martin
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Four Boy Hunters: or, The Outing of the Gun Club (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Hunters' Feast, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Out With Gun and Camera: or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• Young Hunters of the Lake: or, Out With Rod and Gun (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Lost Hunters: A Story of Wild Man and Great Beasts (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939), by Joseph A. Altsheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• This Was My Valley (Ridgecrest, NC; Printed by Heritage Printers, 1960), by Fred M. Burnett, illust. by Kenneth Wilson Whitsett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Rover Boys on a Hunt: or, The Mysterious House in the Woods (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Young Surveyor: or, Jack on the Prairies (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1875), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Pizza for Everyone (Elgin, IL: Chariot Books, c1988), by Josh McDowell and Dottie McDowell, illust. by Meredith Johnson (PDF at josh.org)
• Bad, Bad Bunny Trouble, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Croxley Master, and Other Tales of The Ring and Camp (New York: George H. Doran company, ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.