Early last year, an Associated Press poll reported that 49 percent of Americans identified as National Football League fans. In 2013, more than 74 million people attended a Major League Baseball game. The NBA has built one of the largest social media communities in the world, reaching more than 625 million people across all league, team and player pages on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.
With sports so ubiquitous in our everyday lives – on the news, in the break room at work, on the radio during dinner prep – it is surprising that sports stories make up a relatively small part of the contemporary fiction market.
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