Ball Tales: A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s

by Michelle Nolan

Book Overview

This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels 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 sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786439858
• ISBN13: 9780786439850
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher