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

• Sports (Los Angeles: Make Now, 2008), by Kenneth Goldsmith (PDF at Buffalo)

• Catcher Craig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1915), by Christy Mathewson, illust. by C. M. Relyea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories, by Zane Grey
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• 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 Spell of the White Sturgeon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1953), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• 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)

• The High School Left End: or, Dick and Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The High School Captain of the Team: or, Dick and Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)

• The Girl on the Boat, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• Tales of Lonely Trails, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• 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 childrensbooksforever.com)

• 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)

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

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (page images at Google; US access only)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.