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Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 76 (to Spring 2015)

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:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: any after #67)

Website:   www.spitballmag.com
Publishers:   Spitball, P.O. Box 333, Annville, PA 17003
Editors:   Mike Shannon
Prices:   $6
Frequency:   Irregular; bi-annual in 2004

Spit in the Ocean

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

Literary arts magazine founded by Ken Kesey

Issues & Index Sources: 1974 – 1981:

FictionMags Index

(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)

Spockanalia

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

The very first all-Star Trek fanzine ever published, featuring stories, poems, articles, art and letters.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1967 – Jun-1970

Editors: Devra Michele Langsam & Sherna Comerford
Related Sites: FanLore

The Spook

Country: US
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:

Science Fiction Index


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Spoor Anthology

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Fanzine that ran fiction of the Lovecraft and R.E.Howard type.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1974 – #2, 1974:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers: The Strange Company of Madison, Wisconsin
Editors: Edward P. Berglund


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Sport

Country: New Zealand

A literary journal, containing poetry, short stories, novel extracts, essays and art, which has published contributions from many of New Zealand's leading and up-and-coming writers.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1988 – 2015

Editors: Fergus Barrowman

Sport Adventure

Country: US

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

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1957 – Aug-1957

Oct-1957 – ?, as Ace:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Four Star Publications, 880 Third Avenue, NY

Mentioned in: It's a Man's World



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Sport and Adventure

Country: UK
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 Mirror

Country: UK
Total Issues: 60

A sports magazine that published fiction and/or poetry in most issues.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1881 – Jan-1886:	The Sporting Mirror: A History, Index and Bibliography
	FictionMags Index

Publishers: Henry Etherington, 152 Fleet St.

The Sporting New Yorker

see under The New Sensation

Sport Life

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1954 – Jun-1957

Publishers:   Select Publications
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World



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Sport, Music and Drama

see under Standard

Sports Action

Country: US
Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1937 – Dec-1948: Sports Fiction Index

Publishers:   Red Circle
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines



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Sports Afield

Country: US

"Hunting & fishing" magazine that occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1888 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website:   www.sportsafield.com
Publishers:   Field Sports Publishing Inc (in 2019)
Editors:   Diana Rupp (in 2019)
Related Sites:   Wikipedia

Sports Budget

Country: UK
Total Issues: 595+241=836

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."

The title of the second series 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)