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Ball Tales : A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s Through 1960s, Paperback / softback Book

Ball Tales : A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s Through 1960s Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This is a history of American sports fiction from early dime novels through the 1960s.

Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how $.50 sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and, developments in sports fiction since 1970.

Appendices list sports pulp titles, sports series book characters, and comic books featuring sports.

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