Bronc Burnett

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Bronc Burnett
Bronc Burnett v1.jpg
Volume 1
Author
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreSports
PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons (#1–11)
David McKay (#12–23)
Bobbs-Merrill (#24–27)
Grosset & Dunlap
Published1948–1967

Bronc Burnett is the central character in a series of 27 football, baseball, and scouting novels for adolescent boys set in , written by between 1948 and 1967.[1] The series was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons (#1–11), by David McKay (#12–23), and by Bobbs-Merrill (#24–27). Grosset & Dunlap reissued the entire series with some changes in the order of the books, and with both dust jackets and full-color cover illustrations.[2] Some titles were included in Grosset & Dunlap's "Famous Sports Stories" Collection.

In 2001, Mark Mravic wondered if Bronc's "hokey wholesomeness" was relevant in the new millennium and commented, "Each installment of the Burnett series offers a morality play about sports and life—coping with criticism, for instance, or learning humility in the face of success. Was America ever so innocent, baseball ever so pure? Archetypes people Bronc's world: his loyal sidekick, catcher Fat Crompton; Cap'n Al, the gruff but lovable coach—"solid as a granite boulder"—who imparts the wisdom of his eight years in the big leagues; the insufferable Fibate Jones, team scorekeeper and resident gadfly. This is a world in which baseball-hungry townsfolk build the high school stands by hand; in which sheriff Pole Drinkwater works behind the plate, immune to the "yip-yaps" heckling him; in which the good guys are lanky, broad-shouldered, nimble-footed, and the villains sport names like Slug Langenegger and Sluice Derrick."[3]

List of titles[]

  1. (1948)
  2. (1948)
  3. (1949)
  4. (1949)
  5. (1950)
  6. (1950)
  7. (1951)
  8. (1951)
  9. (1952)
  10. (1958)
  11. (1960)
  12. (1960)
  13. (1960)
  14. (1961)
  15. (1961)
  16. (1961)
  17. (1962)
  18. (1963)
  19. Rough Stuff (1963)
  20. (1964)
  21. (1964)
  22. (1964)
  23. (1965)
  24. (1965)
  25. (1966)
  26. (1966)
  27. (1967)
  28. (1967)

References[]

  1. ^ Axe, John. All About Collecting Boys' Series Books. Hobboy House Publishers, Inc., 2002.
  2. ^ Bronc Burnett
  3. ^ Mravic, Mark. "Lost Classics:Bronc Burnett". Sports Illustrated, February 12, 2001.


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