Ball Tales
by Nolan, MichelleEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-30
Publisher(s): McFarland Publishing
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Michelle Nolan has been a newspaper and magazine feature writer for more than 40 years, working with such periodicals as Comics Buyer's Guide and Comic Book Marketplace. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| What Came Before: There Was Never Another Hero Like Frank Merriwell | p. 7 |
| The Great Pulp Sports Rally During the Depression | p. 19 |
| When College Football Was King on Film | p. 33 |
| A Smattering of Adult Sports Fiction | p. 41 |
| The Man Who Beat Merriwell | p. 62 |
| Sports Fiction Strikes Out in the Comic Books | p. 94 |
| The Longest-Running Heroes | p. 119 |
| Duane Decker's Unique Blue Sox Series | p. 145 |
| The Sports Series Also-Rans | p. 164 |
| The Best of the Best | p. 172 |
| The Prolific Sports Fiction Authors | p. 192 |
| Making Sports History: The Girls of Central High | p. 213 |
| Sports Short Stories for Young and Old | p. 243 |
| The Departure of Drama in Sports Films | p. 254 |
| Sports Pulp Magazines | p. 263 |
| Sports Heroes in Comic Books 1939-1967 | p. 265 |
| Bibliography | p. 267 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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