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Game As They Make 'Em

The Sports Stories of Eustace Cockrell
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Eustace Cockrell was a pioneer television writer who contributed to many of the early western shows including Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke. He also wrote for such high-profile television programs as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Naked City.

Prior to his Hollywood career Cockrell was a prolific writer of short stories. Over a 25-year period beginning in 1932, his works appeared regularly in pulp fiction magazines including Blue Book and Argosy and in "slicks" like Collier's and Saturday Evening Post.

While Cockrell's short stories covered a broad range of fiction categories - detective, adventure, romance and even science fiction - he was primarily a writer of sports stories.

Game As They Make 'Em is a collection of 22 sports tales written between 1934 and 1950. Featured are a variety of settings including football, baseball, wrestling, tennis, golf and horse racing. (Cockrell's boxing stories are contained in Vol. III of his collected works, Refugee Smith and Other Stories of the Ring, published by Mission Point Press in 2022.)

Product Details

PublisherMission Point Press
Publish DateOctober 24, 2022
Pages194
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781958363447
Dimensions11.7 X 8.3 X 0.4 inches | 1.1 pounds

About the Author

Eustace Cockrell was a pioneer television writer who contributed to many of the early western shows including Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke. He also wrote for such high-profile television programs as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Naked City.Prior to his Hollywood career Cockrell was a prolific writer of short stories. Over a 25-year period beginning in 1932, his works appeared regularly in pulp fiction magazines including Blue Book and Argosy and in "slicks" like Collier's and Saturday Evening Post.
Roger Coleman has spent much of his life collecting the stories of American author Eustace Cockrell. Cockrell was a significant contributor to both "pulp" and "slick" magazines in the 1930s and '40s before moving to Hollywood and becoming a pioneer writer of westerns and other early television shows.Coleman is married to Eustace Cockrell's daughter, Elizabeth. "Marrying into this family, I was immediately surrounded by the vast Cockrell history and the respect with which Eustace was held, not only as a writer, but as a person. To his family and friends, he was a man of integrity who reflected the qualities of honesty, fair play and hopefulness - the same qualities found in his many memorable characters."In addition to editing Refugee Smith and Other Stories of the Ring, Coleman previously edited a two-volume set of Cockrell's short stories, Masterpieces of Eustace Cockrell. Roger and Elizabeth Cockrell, both retired ministers, live in Edenton, NC.

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