sports stories, american

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.

A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.

A collection of sports stories featuring everything from fighting to friendship, set everywhere from the tennis court to the hockey rink.

A collection of photographs, stories, and quotes designed to inspire athletes to do their best and reach for the gold, no matter what their sport or skill is.

A collection of nine short stories about sports by various authors, including David Lubar, Joseph Bruchac, and Terry Trueman.

A collection of twenty-five short stories by various authors about different types of sporting contests.

A collection of sixteen short stories about teenage athletes written by well-known authors in the field, including award-winning novelists Robert Lipsyte and Chris Crutcher.

Contains a comprehensive study of the history and trends associated with adolescent sports literature covering such topics as sports in both fiction and non-fiction, literature for young women, and young adult novels about coaches and team leaders.

A collection of twenty-one sports stories which explore aspects of everyday life experiences.