Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction: Six Publishers, with a Directory of Stories, 1935-1957

by Michelle Nolan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476638133
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/16/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	48 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michelle Nolan has been a newspaper and magazine feature writer for more than 50 years. She received an Inkpot Award for her work as a comics and pop cultural historian and entrepreneur. She has written more than 12,000 published articles in newspapers and magazines along with contributions to dozens of books. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Michelle Nolan has been a newspaper and magazine feature writer for more than 50 years. She received an Inkpot Award for her work as a comics and pop cultural historian and entrepreneur. She has written more than 12,000 published articles in newspapers and magazines along with contributions to dozens of books. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I. History of Baseball and Football in the Pulps
 1. Pulp Baseball and Football Authors: The Top 75 and the Other ­400-Plus
 2. William Campbell Gault’s Football
 3. John D. MacDonald’s Football and Baseball
 4. James Blish’s Versatility
 5. Robert Silverberg’s Baseball
 6. Michael Avallone’s Baseball
 7. Duane Decker’s Baseball
 8. The Unsung William R. Cox and T.W. Ford—Nearly 10 Percent of Pulp Sports
 9. Girl Meets Boy
10. The Cover Artists and Themes
11. The Coming of Competition
12. The Competition Explodes
13. The Sports Pulp Publishers
14. The Phantom Issues and Oddities
15. Titillating Titles, ­Mind-Boggling Blurbs and Terrific Terms
16. Bushers in the Stories
17. Where Football and Baseball Numbers Prevailed
18. The Sports Plots Thicken
19. The Few Women in Pulp Baseball
20. High School Football
21. Crime on the Diamond
Between pages 108 and 109 are 8 color plates with 16 photographs
22. A Bonus (Baby) for 1950s Readers
23. A Bit of Baseball in College
24. Nice Pulp Guys Fade Away
25. Managers in the Press Box
26. Baseball on Early Television
27. Football’s Family Ways
28. Damn Yankees in the South
29. The Only Pulp Sports Reprint Title
30. ­Real-Life Heroes—Eddie Collins and Frank Frisch
Part II. Catalog of Pulp Baseball and Football from Six Publishers
Bibliography
Index