Ball tales
Subtitle: a study of baseball, basketball and football fiction of the 1930s through 1960s
By: Michelle Nolan
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780786439850
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What came before: there was never another hero like Frank Merriwell; title: The great pulp sports rally during the Depression; title: When college football was king on film; title: A smattering of adult sports fiction; title: The man who beat Merriwell; title: Sports fiction strikes out in the comic books; title: The longest-running heroes: Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; title: Duane Decker's unique Blue Sox series; title: The sports series also-rans; title: John Tunis: the best of the best; title: The prolific sports fiction authors; title: Making sports history: the girls of Central High; title: Sports short stories for young and old; title: The departure of drama in sports films; title: Appendix A. Sports pulp magazines; title: Appendix B. Sports heroes in comic books 1939-1967.