literature featuring sports

can you name the sport that plays a significant role in these literary works?
these are not all works centered on sports, they just all feature a sport in a prominent role
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title
type
author
year
sport
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
play
William Shakespeare
1623
fencing
Rip Van Winkle
short story
Washington Irving
1819
bowling
The Prelude
poem
William Wordsworth
1850
ice skating
Casey at the Bat
poem
Ernest Thayer
1888
baseball
The Wheels of Chance
novel
H. G. Wells
1896
cycling
Ethan Frome
novella
Edith Wharton
1911
sledding
The Rocking-Horse Winner
short story
D.H. Lawrence
1926
horse racing
The Sun Also Rises
novel
Ernest Hemingway
1926
bullfighting
Rebecca
novel
Daphne du Maurier
1938
sailing
Death of a Salesman
play
Arthur Miller
1949
football
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
play
Tennessee Williams
1955
football
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
short story
Alan Sillitoe
1959
running
The Bell Jar
novel
Sylvia Plath
1963
skiing
Fat City
novel
Leonard Gardner
1969
boxing
Infinite Jest
novel
David Foster Wallace
1996
tennis
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