Sports in the Pulp Magazines

<p> 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 <I>National Police Gazette</I> and <I>All-Story</I> carried some sports stories and several publications such as <I>Sport Story Magazine</I> were entirely devoted to them.</p><p> 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 & 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.</p>