1939-06-22 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1939/06/22 —

Headline over the masthead: A Century of Baseball, With Pictures and Records, In this Issue, 20 Pages

Headline Over Photos on Front Cover: Gee-Whiskers! The Thirty-Niners! How They Might Have Looked, imagines some of 1939’s baseball stars with Old Tyme Mustaches, pictured are: Hank Greenberg – Bill Terry – Ernie Lombardi – Red Ruffing – Gabby Hartnett – Joe McCarthy

Other stories:

Norwegian Prince Gets Ear and Eyeful at a Minor Game – As Guest of Superior Club, Olav Hears Irate Fans Blast Umpire and Sees Player Banished

Dizzy Dean Helps Silence Talk About Hartnett Being Bounced

The Earl Puts Solid Stripe on Bengels about Earl Averill

‘We Wuz Robbed,’ Wail Set Up by Tribe Fans on Averill Deal

Red Evans, Who Dropped Three games on Three Piches on “Daffy Dodger Luck,” Once Hurled for Insane Asylum, with large cartoon of Evans by Willard Mullin

Pepper Martin Rallies Card Fan Interest – 12,538 Pay Tribute to Colourful Veteran on ‘His Day’

Cooperstown Cavalcade Marked by Greatest Galaxy of Past and Present Diamond Stars Ever Assembled, with three photos including the classic one of inductees Honus Wagner, Grover Alexander, Tris Speaker, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young, with note that Ty Cobb arrived late. Sidebar article “Happy Days for Cobb.” Fred Lieb article Exhibition, Staged on Historic Doubleday Field, Showed Evolution of Game from Town Ball to Modern-Day Sport; Hall of Fame Members Provided Biggest Thrill for 10,000 Onlookers

Plus many other articles not mentioned, box scores, detailed minor league coverage and more

Headline: ALL U.S. CELEBRATES CENTURY OF PROGRESS IN GAME – with cover photos of Gen. Abner Doubleday, the 1888 New York Giants with manager Jim Mutrie, the famed Baltimore Orioles of 1894 with manager Ned Hanlon, illustrations of Uniform Styles of 1870 and the Championship Match of Elysian Fields, Hoboken, NJ, 1866

Their Achievements Immortalized in Bronze in Game’s Hall of Fame – shows 19 plaques of the first Hall of Famers, plus article Great Players, Great Officials, Great Teams Dot Game’s History

Centennial Observance Centers in Game’s Birthplace – Shrine, Feature Events Draw Pilgrimages to Cooperstown, plus photos under headline “Preserving Memories of the Deeds of Diamond Greats

Illustration and photo of the Co-Originators of the Curve Ball: Arthur Candy Cummings and Fred E. Goldsmith

Article with team drawing: Red Stockings of 1869, First Paid Team, Only Pro Club Ever Undefeated in Season

Louisville Slugger Bats Used by Players for Over 50 Years

Keeping Step With the Growth of the Game about The Sporting News itself

Deacon White, Oldest Living Player, at 92, Recalls Highlights of Historic Career That Started in 1868

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