Title: Ball tales
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, American Sports stories, Sports in literature, Sports stories, American fiction, history and criticism