Absolutely. It's the "most literary" of sports for the purposes of this article, but not really. There have been a lot of novels written which are either specifically about sport or where a sport plays a major part.
A few other contenders off the top of my head which have some literary pedigree:
Fishing - Old man and the sea
Hunting - Practically all the rest of Hemingway from what I remember although it's been a while
Grouse Shooting - Lady Chatterly's Lover
Tennis - Lots of David Foster Wallace, but in particular Infinite Jest[1] which is set in large part in an elite tennis academy
Basketball - The Crossover
American football - End Zone (the author of the OP loved Underworld, but DeLillo didn't only write about baseball)
Table Tennis - The mighty waltzer
[1] Which actually has a lot about punting in American Football also
I haven't read any of his work, but wasn't Hemingway famously into bullfighting also?
I found this quote somewhere (haven't checked if it's real) “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
A few other contenders off the top of my head which have some literary pedigree:
Fishing - Old man and the sea
Hunting - Practically all the rest of Hemingway from what I remember although it's been a while
Grouse Shooting - Lady Chatterly's Lover
Tennis - Lots of David Foster Wallace, but in particular Infinite Jest[1] which is set in large part in an elite tennis academy
Basketball - The Crossover
American football - End Zone (the author of the OP loved Underworld, but DeLillo didn't only write about baseball)
Table Tennis - The mighty waltzer
[1] Which actually has a lot about punting in American Football also