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I do agree that the sports writers you mention in the US laid the groundwork for hardboiled by giving life and also recording the patter of working people.

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Mocking Hemingway is a sport in itself, and maybe it gets points somewhere, because people sure act like it does. I don't know if your countryman Gerald Kersh ever wrote sports columns, but he wrote Night and the City, among many other great tales. Fowler's End is excellent, but his short stories really shine. If he wrote about sports, it would be great work.

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