Baseball and Football Pulp Fiction

<p> This first-ever volume focusing on sports pulp fiction devoted to America's two most popular pastimes of the 1935-1957 era--baseball and football--provides extensive detail on authors, along with examination of key plots, themes, trends and categories. Commentary relates the works to real-life baseball and football of the period. </p><p> The history of the genre is traced, beginning with the debut of <I>Dime Sport</I> (later renamed <I>Dime Sports</I>