Sports Fiction, July 1948

# Catalog Note

This July 1948 issue of Sports Fiction magazine contains four baseball novelets and two stories in other sports. The featured novelet "Meal Ticket on the Mound" by T.W. Ford concerns Blackie George, a dominant pitcher for the Trojans, known as "The Big Beaut" for his exceptional talent and confidence. During a crucial game, George makes a spectacular bare-handed play but severely injures his left shoulder when he falls on wet grass, sustaining a ligament separation and bone bruise that sidelines him for approximately ten days. The injury threatens the Trojans' pennant hopes as a rival team gains ground. The narrative explores George's temperamental nature and his struggles adjusting to forced inactivity while a promising rookie pitcher named Wild Joe Spane is brought up from the minor leagues, potentially threatening George's position.