{"product_id":"sports-in-the-pulp-magazines-9780786440474","title":"Sports in the Pulp Magazines","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Dinan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Reference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s, pulp magazines--costing a dime and filled with both fiction and nonfiction--were a staple of American life. Though often overlooked by popular culturalists, sports were one of the staples of the pulp scene; such standards as the \u003ci\u003eNational Police Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll-Story\u003c\/i\u003e carried some sports stories, and several publications, such as \u003ci\u003eSport Story Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e were entirely devoted to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An overview of the pulps is followed by an examination of those devoted to sports: how they came into being, the development of the genre, the popularity of its heroes, and coverage of real-life events. The roles of editors, writers, artists, and publishers are then fully covered. A chapter on Street \u0026amp; Smith, the foremost publisher of sports pulps, follows, while a concluding chapter discusses the reasons for the demise of the pulps in the early 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47610000015511,"sku":"9780786440474","price":2821.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786440474.webp?v=1775061073","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sports-in-the-pulp-magazines-9780786440474","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}