John R. Tunis
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After graduating from Harvard and serving in the Army during World War I, Tunis began his writing career freelancing for American sports magazines while playing tennis in the Riviera. For the next two decades he wrote short stories and articles about sports and education for magazines including ''Reader's Digest'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Esquire''. Tunis' work often protested the increasing professionalization of sports in America. He believed that amateur participation in sports taught values important for good citizenship like perseverance, fair play and equality, and that the emphasis on professional sports was turning America into a country of spectators. His sports books also tackled current social issues such as antisemitism and racial equality.
Though Tunis never considered himself a children's writer, all but one of his twenty-four books were published for juveniles; their success helped create the juvenile fiction book market in the 1940s. Books like ''Iron Duke'' (1938), ''All American'' (1942) and ''Keystone Kids'' (1943) were well received by readers and critics. ''Iron Duke'' received the New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival Award for best juvenile novel and was named a The Horn Book Magazine Best Book. The Child Study Association of America gave its Golden Scroll Award to ''Keystone Kids''.
Tunis' eight-book baseball series about the Brooklyn Dodgers began with ''The Kid from Tomkinsville'', a book often cited by sports writers and commentators as inspiring childhood reading. Phillip Roth used ''The Kid from Tomkinsville'' and its main character Roy Tucker in his book ''American Pastoral''. It is also considered an influence for Bernard Malamud's ''The Natural'' and Mark Harris' ''Bang the Drum Slowly''. Provided by Wikipedia
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World Series by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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The Duke decides by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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His enemy, his friend by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Yea! : Wildcats! by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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The American way in sport. by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958
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The kid from Tomkinsville by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Go, team, go! by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Choosing a college by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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The other side of the fence by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Democracy and sport, by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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All-American by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Schoolboy Johnson by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Sport for the fun of it ; a handbook of information on nineteen sports, including the official rules. by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Schoolboy Johnson by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Champion's choice by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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$port$, heroics and hysterics by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Iron Duke by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Grand National by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Was college worth while? by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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Sport for the fun of it ; a handbook of information on 20 sports including the official rules. by Tunis, John Roberts, 1889-1975
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