/lit/ - Literature

Sports are for retards

>>17823081
There's some decent cricket/soccer literature.

>>17823081
there are competitions in the Iliad and Odyssey

>>17823100
>Sports are for retards
>Kerouac attended Columbia on a football scholarship
checks out

>>17823081
Sports are something you give to illiterates and morons so they think they have events and meaning in their lives?

>>17823081
There's "Casey at Bat"

I would say they're sports but there's pretty good literature about sailing and mountaineering. I imagine the memoirs of 60s and 70s Formula 1 racers are interesting too.

>>17823317
*I wouldn't say

cinderella man got made into a movie, that doesn't mean it's "great" but probably above average at least, desu the only writing about boxing i remember are some essay on muhammad ali that was in soul on ice, and that other essay on boxing vs. wrestling in mythologies by barthes

The Natural and Fat City are both great.

>>17823081
There's also The Hustler (or whatever the book it was based off of was called). Not sure if pool sharking is considered a sport though. I think there's also The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren. I think it's a cards based novel about drug addiction. Then there's also the baccarat section in Casino Royale. That was pretty based. In fact every time baccarat comes up in a Bond novel, it gets really based.

>>17823081
The Catcher in the Rye

I liked Norman Mailer's The Fight but it's nonfiction

>>17823081
Literally fucking infinite jest. This board is awful. Fuck you illiterate bastards.

Tennis is big theme of infinite jest bruh

>>17823100
Sports are for young men with dreams and souls. I can agree the average boomer that still watches sports in his free time is a pathetic loser though.

>>17823081
pic related
This Sporting Life by David Storey
Great novel from the "British Kitchen Sink" movement in the late 50's and 60's.
All about Rugby League, Masculinity, the desire to get out of the working class and themes like that.
Well worth a read.

World According to garp has wrestling

>>17823100
maybe
But I watch them to create my own storylines

>>17823081
I read Art of Fielding or whatever it was at like age 13 and it was really lame.

This quarantine shit has made me realize I should try a team sport while my body’s still young. Which one should seek out?

>>17824007
>>17824091
Shameful that these weren't the first posts ITT

>>17823207
Sports are events, whether or not we enjoy them. It has no meaning beyond a few hours entertainment, so I have no idea why morons place more importance on them than that

>>17823081
Once a Runner

I read it when I wasn’t very /lit/, but in distance running/track & field circles, it gets passed around and talked about a lot. I thought it was great.

>>17823081
Nobody in /lit/ does sports.

>>17824273
thanks, this actually seems like exactly what I'm looking for in a good sports related story

>>17825594
Basketball if 6+ ft

>>17827231
I do MMA and my favourite philosopher is Aristotle

>>17825618
Replacement for war. Chance to advertise themselves to fertile females. A way to rise above the masses for those that don't have much in the head.
It's a mixture of biology, evolution and psychology.

>>17823081
Infinite Jest

>>17825594
All team sports are pretty much the same, the problem you'll most likely encounter will be getting enough people together at specified time, since work and other responsibilities take priority.
Maybe try some 1v1 sport for a start.

Tim Krabbe, The Rider.

I read "The Hustler", "Color of Money" and "Queens Gambit" and they were are pretty pleasant.
I think sports are interesting enough on their own that they don't really need to be made into fiction. And they're rather limited in terms of what you can tell in the story, what the characters go through.
My favorite sports book is probably "The four kings" by George Kimball, describing the history of Leonard/Hagler/Duran/Hearns rivalries and the antics outside of the ring. Lots of interesting information about their characters, habits, training, injuries etc., they were all fascinating guys on their own so it's interesting read and Kimball has very entertaining writing style.

>>17823081
Friday Night Lights

>>17823081
Ashita no Joe is fucken based
Power of One

>>17823081
Alan Sillitoe's 'The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner'.

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup