Kent, I think you contributed years ago when we discussed
only baseball. I haven't searched for it, but I do remember
smong others I mentioned Richard Rosen whose protagonist,
Harvey Blissberg, was a retired pitcher turned detective. I
thought the first book in the series, Strike Three, You're
Dead, was the best of the series. Myron Bolitar, the
protagonist of the Harlan Coben series, is a former
basketball star. Mark
--- "T. Kent Morgan" <
tkmorgan@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Despite being a collector of sports fiction,
I
> planned to stay out of this
> discussion when I saw the word "noir" combined
with
> the word "sports."
> However, it's clear to me that a number of the
books
> mentioned in this
> thread don't fall under noir as defined by the
many
> experts on this list so
> I am jumping in.
>
> First of all, I agree with the positive
comments
> about The Damned UTD by
> David Peace. I believe I commented in the past
about
> this novel. Here are a
> few others for your consideration.
>
> The Jook by Gary Phillips involves a former NFL
wide
> receiver who in the
> words of the late Barbara Seranella is "trying
every
> way he knows to reclaim
> the life of fast women and big money. All this
leads
> to the end zone run of
> his life."
>
> The Spoiler by Dominic Stansberry is a novel
of
> minor league baseball and
> murder where a sports reporter becomes involved
with
> a mysterious woman who
> provides him with a connection between the
baseball
> team and a series of
> arsons.
>
> For those looking for rugby novels, Caveman
Politics
> by Jay Atkinson is
> about a Florida reporter who plays the game
and
> becomes involved in a case
> where a teammate from Trinidad is accused of
rape.
>
> My two favorites are The Last Season by
Canada's
> most versatile writer Roy
> MacGregor and The Great Molinas by Neil D.
Isaacs.
> The first is about hockey
> "goon" Felix Batterinski, who near the end of
his
> career is attempting to
> come to terms with his life while serving as
a
> player-coach in Poland during
> the early 1980s. The second is the novelized
story
> of basketball player Jack
> Molinas whose life was destroyed due to gambling
and
> who was eventually
> rubbed out by the mob. A hockey goon and
a
> basketball player unable to
> control his impulses IMO qualify under noir
sports.
>
> Kent Morgan
>
>
>
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