Author : Michelle Nolan
Release : 2020-07-16
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 136/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction by : Michelle Nolan
Download or read book Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction written by Michelle Nolan. This book was released on 2020-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories. Commentary relates the works to real-life baseball and football of the period. The history of the genre is traced, beginning with the debut of Dime Sport (later renamed Dime Sports), the first magazine from a major publisher to provide competition for Street & Smith's long-established Sport Story Magazine. Complementing the text is a complete catalog of fiction from the six major publishers who competed with S&S, also noting the cover themes for 1,054 issues.