Pelecanos has included sports action in a number of his
books. The best example is The Sweet Forever, in which the
NCAA basketball tournament is a backdrop. Of course, this
comes with a devastating coda at the end of the book.
Shame the Devil, Hell to Pay and The Nigh Gardener all
include chapters where the outcome of a game is meant to
provide some suspense.
There is a Robert B. Parker book that involves point shaving
in college basketball and one of the earliest Spenser books
involved gambling in baseball.
Richard Abshire's The Dallas Drop includes quite a bit of
action from the world of indoor soccer involving a team I
grew up watching, the Dallas Sidekicks.
And who could forget "Fat Dog" Baker, the caddy who set's
Ellroy's Brown's Requiem in motion?
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