The Major League Baseball season starts in just a few days. Eighteen ballclubs will be in action on Thursday, April 7. More will play the next day. We’ll find out who will win the 2022 World Series around the end of October.
It probably won’t be the Pittsburgh Pirates. The team is still rebuilding. But we can certainly root for the Buccos and hope they bring this year’s Commissioner’s Trophy back to Pennsylvania’s Steel City.
Although it seems the Pirates don’t stand a chance, you can still join the winning team. It’s easy to be part of a proven winner by becoming a PulpFest sponsor.
Be a PulpFest Sponsor
Your link and logo will appear on our homepage for an annual website sponsorship of $150. Six-month sponsorships are also available for $80.
You can sponsor the convention’s welcome banner, proudly displayed at the convention’s main entrance. Your name will be displayed at the top of our 2022 banner, welcoming visitors to PulpFest 50. Another alternative is to sponsor our membership badges. Your name or logo will appear on every badge, acknowledging your contribution to the convention. Both these sponsorships are based upon the costs for the banner and badges.
For a contribution of $25 or more, you can become a hospitality suite sponsor. You’ll be listed on a poster in the PulpFest con-suite at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. Or sign up to help sponsor this year’s “Pizza at PulpFest.” We hope to repeat this very popular event in the hotel lounge on Thursday, August 4.
All of our sponsors, both large and small, will be thanked via several posts that will run on our homepage and social media sites.
Other opportunities to contribute financially to PulpFest include advertising in our annual program book, The Pulpster, or donating free giveaways or door prizes for our members. Last year, we received donations from Bear Manor Media, Chaosium, Inc., Gordon Van Gelder and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Mike Chomko, Books.
Join the PulpFest team! If you or your organization would like to discuss a PulpFest sponsorship or advertising opportunity, please contact the convention’s marketing and programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
George Gross painted countless covers for Fiction House magazines, including Action Stories, Air Stories, Bull’s-Eye Detective, Detective Book Magazine, Fight Stories, Football Stories, Illustrated Football Annual, Jungle Stories, Lariat Story Magazine, North-West Romances, Two Complete Detective Books, and Wings. Pictured here is his cover for the Spring 1951 Baseball Stories. It was originally used on the Spring 1942 number. Our featured image is a portion of the artist’s cover for Baseball Stories for Summer 1940. Undoubtedly the company’s leading sports pulp artist, Gross contributed all 33 covers for the Fiction House baseball pulp (although a half-dozen of his Baseball Stories covers were used on two different issues).
Baseball Stories debuted with its Spring 1938 number. Its final issue was dated Spring 1954. Along with Fiction House’s football pulps, Fight Stories, and a few other titles, the publisher produced more than 200 sports pulps over a 27-year period. Baseball Stories was the first and longest-lived of the baseball pulps. Other titles included Martin Goodman’s All-Baseball Stories and Big Baseball Stories and Standard Magazine’s Exciting Baseball, Popular Baseball, and Thrilling Baseball. None of these titles lasted for more than a handful of issues.
