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Author:   Michelle Nolan
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781476677576

ISBN 10:   1476677573
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   10 August 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part I. History of Baseball and Football in the Pulps  1. Pulp Baseball and Football Authors: The Top 75 and the Other ­400-Plus  2. William Campbell Gault’s Football  3. John D. MacDonald’s Football and Baseball  4. James Blish’s Versatility  5. Robert Silverberg’s Baseball  6. Michael Avallone’s Baseball  7. Duane Decker’s Baseball  8. The Unsung William R. Cox and T.W. Ford—Nearly 10 Percent of Pulp Sports  9. Girl Meets Boy 10. The Cover Artists and Themes 11. The Coming of Competition 12. The Competition Explodes 13. The Sports Pulp Publishers 14. The Phantom Issues and Oddities 15. Titillating Titles, ­Mind-Boggling Blurbs and Terrific Terms 16. Bushers in the Stories 17. Where Football and Baseball Numbers Prevailed 18. The Sports Plots Thicken 19. The Few Women in Pulp Baseball 20. High School Football 21. Crime on the Diamond Between pages 108 and 109 are 8 color plates with 16 photographs 22. A Bonus (Baby) for 1950s Readers 23. A Bit of Baseball in College 24. Nice Pulp Guys Fade Away 25. Managers in the Press Box 26. Baseball on Early Television 27. Football’s Family Ways 28. Damn Yankees in the South 29. The Only Pulp Sports Reprint Title 30. ­Real-Life Heroes—Eddie Collins and Frank Frisch Part II. Catalog of Pulp Baseball and Football from Six Publishers Bibliography Index

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Michelle Nolan has been a newspaper and magazine feature writer for more than 50 years. She received an Inkpot Award for her work as a comics and pop cultural historian and entrepreneur. She has written more than 12,000 published articles in newspapers and magazines along with contributions to dozens of books. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.

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