""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 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 ...
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""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 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. A complete index lists fiction from the six major publishers who competed with S&S, and cover themes for 1,054 issues."-Provided by publisher"--
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