Charles Emmett Van Loan (1876-1919) was one of America's most popular sports writers. He began as a writer for the Los Angeles Morning Herald and later the Los Angeles Examiner. He was a prolific contributor of sports stories for leading magazines, in particular the Saturday Evening Post. The Philadelphia Public Ledger estimated that Van Loan had the largest following of men readers of any magazine fiction writer . His works include: The Bonehead (1911), The Ten-Thousand Dollar Arm and Other Tales of the Big League (1912), Ghost Cities of the West (1915), Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories (1917), Fore! (1918), Art and the Dollar (1919), Buck Parvin and the Movies: Stories of the Moving Picture Game (1919), Taking the Count (1919) and Score by Innings: Baseball Stories (1919).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dodo Press
ISBN-13
9781409987604
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104832177
Product Key Features
Book Title
Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories (Dodo Press)
Author
Charles E Van Loan
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
313g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Charles E Van Loan
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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