Ball tales : a study of baseball, basketball and football fiction of the 1930s through 1960s /

"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; D...

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Main Author:	Nolan, Michelle, 1948-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
Subjects:	Sports stories, American > History and criticism. Sports in literature.