Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction

Six Publishers, with a Directory of Stories, 1935-1957

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-08-10
Mått178 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor228
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476677576

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Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. History of Baseball and Football in the Pulps1. Pulp Baseball and Football Authors: The Top 75 and the Other 400-Plus2. William Campbell Gault’s Football3. John D. MacDonald’s Football and Baseball4. James Blish’s Versatility5. Robert Silverberg’s Baseball6. Michael Avallone’s Baseball7. Duane Decker’s Baseball8. The Unsung William R. Cox and T.W. Ford—Nearly 10 Percent of Pulp Sports9. Girl Meets Boy10. The Cover Artists and Themes11. The Coming of Competition12. The Competition Explodes13. The Sports Pulp Publishers14. The Phantom Issues and Oddities15. Titillating Titles, Mind-Boggling Blurbs and Terrific Terms16. Bushers in the Stories17. Where Football and Baseball Numbers Prevailed18. The Sports Plots Thicken19. The Few Women in Pulp Baseball20. High School Football21. Crime on the DiamondBetween pages 108 and 109 are 8 color plates with 16 photographs22. A Bonus (Baby) for 1950s Readers23. A Bit of Baseball in College24. Nice Pulp Guys Fade Away25. Managers in the Press Box26. Baseball on Early Television27. Football’s Family Ways28. Damn Yankees in the South29. The Only Pulp Sports Reprint Title30. Real-Life Heroes—Eddie Collins and Frank FrischPart II. Catalog of Pulp Baseball and Football from Six PublishersBibliographyIndex