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• Sullivan, John Lawrence, 1858-1918

• Life and Reminiscences of a 19th Century Gladiator (Boston: J. A. Hearn and Co.; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1892), by John Lawrence Sullivan and Dudley Allen Sargent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Abysmal Brute (New York: The Century Co., 1913), by Jack London, illust. by Gordon Grant
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cashel Byron's Profession, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)
• Cashel Byron's Profession; also The Admirable Bashville, and An Essay on Modern Prizefighting (London: A. Constable and Co., 1905), by Bernard Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Croxley Master: A Great Tale of the Prize Ring (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1907), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Game, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Herra Byronin Ammatti (Cashel Byron's Profession in Finnish; Porvoo: W. Söderström, 1923), by Bernard Shaw, trans. by Väinö Jaakkola (Gutenberg text)
• Viimeinen Ottelu (The Game in Finnish; Helsinki: Urheilijain Kustannus, 1917), by Jack London, trans. by Einari Merikallio (Gutenberg text)
• Villipeto (The Abysmal Brute in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Suomi, 1920), by Jack London, trans. by Maunu Korpela (Gutenberg text)

• Life and Reminiscences of a 19th Century Gladiator (Boston: J. A. Hearn and Co.; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1892), by John Lawrence Sullivan and Dudley Allen Sargent (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• A Bright Sunset: or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Football Player (second edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885), by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (page images at Google)

• Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 (London: J. Murray, 1871), by Edward Whymper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 (based on the fifth edition of 1900), by Edward Whymper (multiple formats with commentary at Standard Ebooks)

• The Negro in Sports (San Francisco: Daily People's World, ca. 1947), by Nat Low, illust. by Pele Edises (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education (2001), by Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (PDF at knightcommission.org)

• The Athlete's Conquest : The Romance of an Athlete (New York: Physical Culture Pub. Co., c1901), by Bernarr Macfadden
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google

• The White Company, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The White Company (New York: Cosmpolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Arthur Conan Doyle, illust. by N. C. Wyeth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1916), by Ring Lardner
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Wikisource

• Sangre y Arena (in Spanish; Valencia: Prometeo, c1919), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Red Sand (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1924), by T. S. Stribling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments (main text in Greek, with English notes and prose translation; Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1905), by Bacchylides, trans. by R. C. Jebb
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Negro in Sports (revised edition; Washington: Associated Publishers, 1949), by Edwin Bancroft Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives (ca. 2013), by United States National Archives and Records Administration
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • Epub at archives.gov
• Baseball Cyclopedia (New York: Baseball Magazine Co., c1922), by Ernest J. Lanigan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Bob Luke (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Restoring the Balance: Dollars, Values, and the Future of College Sports (2010), by Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (PDF and Javascript-dependent HTML at knightcommission.org)

• Frank Merriwell's Athletes: or, The Boys Who Won (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1903), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)

• The Winning of the Golden Spurs (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1911), by Percy F. Westerman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Proceedings of Convention of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, Held in New York City, March 17, 1871 (Washington: Beresford, 1871), by National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pitching in a Pinch; or, Baseball from the Inside (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Christy Mathewson, contrib. by John N. Wheeler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Girls of Central High at Basketball (1914), by Gertrude W. Morrison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Dick Merriwell's Trap: or, The Chap Who Bungled (New York: Street and Smith, c1902), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)

• Game-Day Gangsters: Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Curtis Fogel (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Mediatization of the O. J. Simpson Case: From Reality Television to Filmic Adaptation (Media Studies v102; Bielefeld: Transcript, 12023), by Tatjana Neubauer (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Misleading Information From the Battlefield: Hearing Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, April 24, 2007 (Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Misleading Information From the Battlefield: The Tillman and Lynch Episodes (first committee report, with additional views from Tom Davis; 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, contrib. by Tom Davis (PDF at gpo.gov)
• The Tillman Fratricide: What the Leadership of the Defense Department Knew (hearing before the committee, August 1, 2007; Washington: GPO, 2008), by United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gay Athletic Games I (official program, with proclamations from San Francisco and Boston mayors; San Francisco: Gay Athletic Games, 1982), contrib. by Dianne Feinstein and Kevin H. White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Gay Athletic Games I (official program, with proclamations from San Francisco and Boston mayors; San Francisco: Gay Athletic Games, 1982), contrib. by Dianne Feinstein and Kevin H. White (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Swiss Notes by Five Ladies (Leeds: Inchbold and Beck, 1875), ed. by Mary Taylor (page images at Google)

• Dick Merriwell's Trap: or, The Chap Who Bungled (New York: Street and Smith, c1902), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)

• The Pearl (published in magazine form in 1945, and book form in 1947), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Pearl Lagoon (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1924), by Charles Nordhoff, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Pearl Fishers (New York: J. Lane Co., 1915), by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Fred Fenton on the Track: or, The Athletes of Riverport School (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1913), by Allen Chapman
  • Gutenberg text
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

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