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Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine

Started as a baseball poetry journal, it quickly evolved into a broader literary magazine that included baseball short fiction, prose, art, and book reviews.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1981 – present
Publishers:   Spitball, P.O. Box 333, Annville, PA 17003
Website:   www.angelfire.com/oh5/spitball
Editors:   Mike Shannon
Prices:   $6
Frequency:   Irregular; bi-annual in 2004

Spit in the Ocean

Total Issues: 6

Literary arts magazine founded by Ken Kesey

Issues & Index Sources:  1974 – 1981: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Editors:   Different editor for each issue
Formats:   5.5" x 8.5"
Prices:   $2.00
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   annual (no issues for 1975 & 1980)

The Spook

Total Issues: 15

The Spook is the world's first fully downloadable consumer magazine in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. It features short fiction by some of today's finest writers, celebrity profiles, and reviews. The Spook is a free publication sponsored by its advertisers.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-2001 – Dec-2002: Miller/Contento

Spoor Anthology

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1974 – #2, 1974: Miller/Contento

Sport Adventure

Men's magazine that published some stories by Barry Malzberg.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1957 – Aug-1957
  Oct-1957 – ?, as Ace: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Four Star Publications, 880 Third Avenue, N.Y.

Sources

  MansWorld

Sport and Adventure

Total Issues: 26

Story paper aimed at both girls and boys; really a continuation of Marvel.

Issues & Index Sources

  29-Apr-1922 – 21-Oct-1922

#superseded by Pluck

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  John Nix Pentalow

Formats

  octavo story paper

Frequency

  weekly

The Sporting New Yorker

see under The New Sensation

Sport Life

Total Issues: 3+

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1954? – Jun-1957?
Publishers:   Select Publications
Sources:   MansWorld

Sports Action

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1937 – Aug-1948?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Red Circle
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt
 

Sports Budget

Total Issues: 595

Contains "serials of about 4000 word instalments and long complete stories of 18000 words in length. Also 4000 word short stories, usually series. All with love interest."

Issues & Index Sources

  6-Oct-1923 – 2-Mar-1935

#becomes Sports Budget (New Series)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Thursday)

Sports Budget (New Series)

Total Issues: 241

The title became The New Sports Budget for two issues, but reverted to Sports Budget with issue 3. Contained long complete stories and serials relating to sport, but towards the end carried more general features and fiction.

Incorporates: Football Weekly from 30-Jan-1937 (Gifford gives 23-Jan-1937)

Issues & Index Sources

  9-Mar-1935 – 14-Oct-1939

#incorporated into Detective Weekly

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Frequency

  weekly

Sports Fiction

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1938 – Sep-1951?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Columbia
Editors:   Robert W. Lowndes
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt
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Sports For Boys

Total Issues: 28

Issues & Index Sources

  9-Oct-1920 – 16-Apr-1921

#incorporated into All Sports

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Arthur Steffans; John W. Wheway (Sub-editor)

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sports Fun

Total Issues: 13

Part comic, part story paper, based on the popular format of Film Fun but featuring sportsmen rather than film stars.

Issues & Index Sources

  11-Feb-1922 – 6-May-1922

#becomes Sports Fun (New Series)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Arthur Steffens

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  20pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sports Fun (New Series)

Total Issues: 29

Issues & Index Sources

  13-May-1922 – 25-Nov-1922

#incorporated into Football & Sports Favourite

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  20pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Thursday)

Sports Illustrated

Sports magazine; although almost wholly non-fictional (like other Luce publications), it has published occasional pieces of fiction, e.g. by Robert Graves.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   Time, Inc. (Henry Luce)
Website:   sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Formats:   big slick

Sports Leaders Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1948 – Oct-1948: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Apr-1948, Oct-1948)
Publishers:   Stadium Publishing
Editors:   Robert O. Erisman
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt


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