Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction

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Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction is written by Michelle Nolan and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1476677573 (ISBN 10) and 9781476677576 (ISBN 13).

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.