Sports+Fiction

__**Definition**__ An adventure novel has an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of writing. The same base plot has stayed the same since the beginning involving medieval stories. Variations kept the genre alive. From the mid 19th century onwards, when mass literacy grew, adventure became a popular subgenre of fiction... Adventure novels often overlap with other genres, notably war novels, crime novels, sea stories, science fiction, fantasy, and Westerns. Not all books within these genres are adventures. Adventure novels take the setting and premise of these other genres, but the fast-paced plot of an adventure focuses on the actions of the hero within the setting.

[|Categories]: [|Adventure fiction] | [|Literary genres]

__ Last shot __
Last shot is a novel about two kids who win a writing contest ,there prize was a trip to the final four. While at the final four they found that the star point guard for one of the teams was getting blackmailed to lose the games. They then becaame thoroughly involved with the case and get to know the victim of the blackmail. While searching for facts of the case they get kidnapped. One of the suspects came just in time to rescue them. They attended the last game, told the point guard they were safe and went to watch the game in peace. The point guard scored thirty points to lead his team to victory.

__ Travel team __
Travel team is a novel about a child who gets cut from his local travel team. His father,the star of that team when he was young enough, and his mother don’t get along. He knows that he deserves to be on the team, just by watching him play anyone would be blown away. His father comes home to make a second travel team. The team starts off doing terrible losing the first eight games. When they finally win a game his father gets in a huge accident. He is now responsible for coaching his team. The team than has to play the team that he gets cut from. He wins the game the same way his father won the game twenty years earlier.

__The Hockey Machine__
The Hockey Machine is about a kid who is the best on his hockey team. He gets tricked into going on a travel team when someone else forged his parents signature. While playing his heart out in hockey he has to figure out an escape plan. He tries to escape but got caught and got in trouble. During a game he ran away during intermission. Just when he was about to get away he got caught. He was about to get beaten when his family showed up and saved him. The bad people went to jail and all the other kids on his travel team got returned to their parents.



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**__John Feinstein__**
John Feinstein is a Jewish American bestseller. He lives in Potomac, Maryland and has two children Danny and Birgit. He was born in 1956 and was born in New York. He is particularly known for his two famous fiction novels. He is the author of Last Shot, Vanishing act, Cover up, and, Change up. He also writes for the Washington post.

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**__ Mike Lupica __**
Mike Lupica is one of the most prominent sports writers in America. His longevity at the top of his field is based on his experience and insider's knowledge, coupled with a provocative presentation that takes an uncompromising look at the tumultuous world of professional His previous young adult novels, //Travel Team, Heat, Miracle on 49th Street//, and the summer hit for 2007, //Summer Ball//, have shot up the New York Times bestseller list. Lupica is also what he describes as a "serial Little League coach," a youth basketball coach, and a soccer coach for his four children, three sons and a daughter. He and his family live in Connecticut. sports.

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**__Matt Christopher__**
Matthew F. Christopher was born on August 16, 1917, in Bath, Pa. He died in 1997 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Matt Christopher is well-known for his sports fiction novels and has won the 1993 Milner Award, given annually to the author whose books are most liked by the children of Atlanta, Georgia. Christopher was the 11th recipient of the award. Christopher's first award was a Boys' Clubs of America Junior Book Award Certificate presented to him in 1958 for his book, BASKETBALL SPARKPLUG. Back in the late 1930's, Christopher played baseball with several teams, including Cayuga Rock Salt Baseball team and the Freeville-Dryden Baseball team. In high school Christopher played baseball, football, and soccer. He played basketball with NCR, the team sponsored by the National Cash Register Company in Ithaca, NY where he worked (while he wrote stories in the evenings). Christopher got interested in writing while a freshman in high school. He retired from NCR in 1963 to go into fulltime writing. In 1938 Christopher was one of the athletes selected to play in an exhibition game against the former major league baseball team, The New York Giants. The game was to raise funds for a memorial to John McGraw, former manager of the Giants. Christopher recalls batting twice against Johnny Wittig and getting one hit. In the spring of 1938 he played Class C minor league baseball with Smiths-Falls, Ont., Canada, a New York Yankee farm team. Later that year, after returning to continue playing baseball with Freeville-Dryden, he was awarded the MVP, most valuable player, of the team. Besides books, Christopher has had about 275 short stories and articles published in over 65 children and adult magazines. His first sale was a one-act play that was published in 1940 by Greenburg Publishers of New York. His first short story sale was a detective story, titled THE MISSING FINGER POINTS, published by Detective Story Magazine in 1943.

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[|http://www.billhall.com/About_the_Artist.htm] __** Bill Hall**__ Bill has been around long enough that he gained much of his notoriety as a traditional painter. Hall became intrigued with the flexibility of the digital environment and bought his first computer in 1994, a Mac 840 AV.

He is so accomplished at working digitally, once his work is printed, it is difficult to tell his digital art from his oil on canvas paintings. Corel uses his work to promote PainterX, the software that Hall uses. His work is also featured in PainterXs users manual and on the splash screen when the program is launched. Wacom, the makers of the electronic tablet that Bill uses, features his work on their website and promos.

He is considered such an authority on the use of digital media for the creation of art, Hall is published in several industry How To books. These publications include The PainterIX and PainterX Wow! books by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Digital Collage and Painting Using Photoshop, by Susan Ruddic Bloom, and PainterX Creativity, by Jeremy Sutton. American Artist magazine featured his sports art in April 2005. Bill Hall has completed paintings for advertising agencies like Anderson & Lembke, Leo Burnett, Lintas NY, R.L. Polk, Wells Rich Green, Ross Roy and Young and Rubicam. Specific sporting events that have used his work are: the Virginia Slims Master's Tourney, Special Olympics, the '94 World Cup of Soccer for both MasterCard and Mars Candy Company, the Ameritech Senior's Open, the LG Championship PGA Senior's Tourney, the New York Marathon, the Cleveland Grand Prix for its sponsor Pepsi Cola, and images for the World Jai Alai Federation. Plus, his work was used exclusively to promote the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo from 1998 to 2002. Bill has completed significant projects for the auto racing industry, like a portrait of Dan Gurneys race team, a portrait of John Force, voted American Motorsports Driver of the Year in '96, and 1999's NASCAR Rookie of the Year, Tony Stewart. If you're in California, Georgia or Texas, you stand a good chance of having seen some of Bill's work first hand at the Malibu SpeedZone entertainment centers. He painted two murals to size, in his computer, for the City of Industry, CA, Kennesaw, GA and Dallas, TX locations. The mural on the outside of the building, a single yellow Indy car, measured 20 ft. x 88 ft. The interior mural is a series of life size cars racing around a track, 7' tall by 130' long. Inside these three Malibu SpeedZone centers you can see Bill Hall's artwork on touch screens, activity cards, and tee-shirts. And in the year 2000, Easter Seals chose 13 pieces of his art for their sports calendar. Other clients include: Chrylser, Coca Cola, Dow Chemical, Federal Express, Frito-Lay, Greg Norman (signed/numbered limited edition portrait), IN-N-OUT Burger/T-shirts and limited edition prints 1993 and 2003, 3 murals for a soccer park in Irving, TX, Texas Motor Speedway, Konami and Accolade Sports Video Games, Miller Brewing, Union Pacific Logistics, EDS race timing system and the 2002 International Olympic Committee.

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Bart Forbes
Bart Forbes, b. 1939 is an American painter and illustrator. He has worked for most of the popular magazines, amongst them TIME and Sports Illustrated, ((Ladies Home Journal, McCalls, Golf Digest, as well as a broad selection of corporate clients. His wide variety of works include postage stamps for the US Postal Service, Time Magazine's Man of the Year article on Jimmy Carter, paintings of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, theme paintings for the PGA tournaments and club houses and paintings of the Dallas Cowboys for Jerry Jones private jet. He was the recipient of the 1986 Sport Artist of the Year Award given annually by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives. The Sports Art of Bart Forbes, a collection of his most famous sports paintings was published by Beckett in 1998.

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Bob Staake
Staake attended the University of Southern California (1977) on a Journalism/International relations scholarship. Interned at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's Students Press Law Center.
 * Bob Staake ** (born September 26, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author, and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod.

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