1956/12/19 --

  • Cover cartoon is " What's Cooking" by Willard Mullin showing a football player and a fighter seated atop a stove labeled "Hot Stove League" with fan below ready to light it up!
  • Headline of issue "Scott Says Yanks Didn't Nurse Streaks - 1,307 Game Player Tells of Own Skein" featuring Everett Scott talking about both his and Lou Gehrig's streaks
  • JACKIE ROBINSON TRADED FROM DODGERS TO GIANTS FOR $35,0000 AND DICK LITTLEFIELD ... headline reads "History Maker Jackie Crosses Bridge" with two headshot photos of Robinson below, one from 1947, the other from '56 ... 4 articles in all start on this page, one each by Dan Daniel, Joe King, and Jimmy Burns plus "News Takes Jackie by Surprise--'But That's Baseball'" by Harold Rosenthal
  • "Greenberg Holds Teepee Flap Open to 'Retiring Flip'" as Indians GM Hank Greenberg tries to convince Al Rosen not to retire
  • Part 1 of 2 -- PEE WEE ... PRIDE OF FLATBUSH ... Beaned Early First Season, He's Been Regular 16 Years" first of 2 part Pee Wee Reese feature
  • Page of N.L. batting stats includes large headshot cartoon of batting champ Hank Aaron
  • Necrology: Obituary fro Mrs. Grace Comiskey
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page "The All-Sports News" section covering football and other sports

    • 32 pages plus 8-page "The All-Sports News" section for 40 pages total.