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 provi.
Mcfarland & Company Baseball and football pulp fiction: six publishers, with a directory of stories, 1935-1957, paperback/michelle nolan
