Ball tales

Offers a detailed analysis of baseball, basketball, and football fiction written between 1930 and 1969, exploring 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; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and other related topics.