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- Title
An Early Baseball Play and an Early Baseball Novel.
- Authors
Edelman, Rob
- Abstract
Across the years, ballplayers occasionally have had their names attached to fictions that link sports and romance. Christy Mathewson, for one, was credited as coauthor of a play, The Girl and the Pennant, while Frank Chance had his byline on a novel, The Bride and the Pennant. Mathewson's collaborator was playwright- songwriter-librettist Rida Johnson Young, and questions arise: How much of a role did Mathewson actually have in writing The Girl and the Pennant ? Was his name connected to it merely as a marketing tool? Additionally, how did audiences and critics respond to the play? The issue of authorship also comes into question regarding The Bride and the Pennant. What precisely was Frank Chance's involvement? How much actual writing did he do? Was he connected to the project merely as a selling point? And also, how was The Bride and the Pennant received by reviewers and readers?
- Subjects
BASEBALL; BASEBALL in literature; MATHEWSON, Christy, 1880-1925; CHANCE, Frank L. (Frank Leroy), 1877-1924; YOUNG, Rida Johnson; BRIDE &; the Pennant, The (Book)
- Publication
Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, 2014, Vol 8, p5
- ISSN
1934-2802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BB.8.5