An edition of Ball tales
(2010)
Ball tales
a study of baseball, basketball and football fiction of the 1930s through 1960s
by Michelle Nolan
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"Chapters cover dime novel heroes; the explosion of sports novels before WWII and its influence on the authors; how $.50 sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and sports fiction since 1970"--Provided by publisher.
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Ball tales: a study of baseball, basketball and football fiction of the 1930s through 1960s
2010, McFarland & Co., Publishers
in English
0786439858 9780786439850
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Table of Contents
What came before: there was never another hero like Frank Merriwell
The great pulp sports rally during the Depression
When college football was king on film
A smattering of adult sports fiction
The man who beat Merriwell
Sports fiction strikes out in the comic books
The longest-running heroes: Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett
Duane Decker's unique blue sox series
The sports series also-rans
John Tunis: the best of the best
The prolific sports fiction authors
Making sports history: the girls of Central High
Sports short stories for young and old
The departure of drama in sports films
Appendix A. Sports pulp magazines
Appendix B. Sports heroes in comic books 1946-1967
Bibliography.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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