1948/05/12 — Cover cartoon is “Wising Up the Lip” by Willard Mullin featuring Leo Durocher and Mullin’s Brooklyn Bum Headline on front cover is “‘Beat Bums’ Slogan Hits Tribe in Teeth – Lou’s Crew Hits Slump After Crack Article on Stan Musial raising his average from .174 the first 12 games to .373 “Pittsburgh All [...]
1948/05/26 — Cover cartoon is “Staff of No-Hitters” by Willard Mullin features Bill McCahan, Dick Fowler, and Bullfrog Bill Dietrich Headline on front cover is “‘Lively Ball’ Laid to Dead-Arm Pitching — Everybody Now Swings for Distance” “Looping the Loops” feature by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Eddie Joost “Mack’s Cinderella A’s Cost But $75,000 [...]
1948/02/18 — Cover cartoon is “Look Who’s Talking” by Willard Mullin featuring his famed Brooklyn Bum Headline on front cover is “Hall of Fame Picks Cheapened — Lanigan: Voting Plan Draws Fire of Director, Raps ‘Forced’ Second Ballot When No Player Receives 75 Pct. of First Poll” Ailing Babe in Miami to Soak Up Sunshine [...]
1948/02/25 — Cover cartoon is “Acid Test for Ben” by Willard Mullin featuring Eddie Miller and Ben Chapman Headline on front cover is “MacPhail Blasts Rickey in Negro Row – Denies Vote for Barrier Was Taken: Former Yankee Head Joins in Uproar Over Talk by Dodger President” with article continuing onto page two and sidebar [...]
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 [...]
