1939-10-19 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1939/10/19 —

Headline over the masthead: First All-Star Team Puzzle Installment — Story of Babe Dahlgren

Main Headline under the masthead: Don Barnes Tames Directors, Takes Steps to Control Browns – Increases Holdings of Shares in Club; One Director Quits

Headline Over Photos on Front Cover: These Yanks Are Coming As Rainy Day Replacements on Stadium Front Line – Shown are, left to right, George Washburn – Marvin Breuer – Kenneth Sears – Hank Borowy – Gerald Priddy

Other stories

Article under Yankee photos: No Charlie Kellers in Sight, But Over-Supply of Talent Is Barrow’s Chief Worry — Places Must Be Found in ’41 for Priddy and Rizzuto, Prize Keystone Pair; No Outstanding Stars for First Base or Hill; Some of Surplus May Go on Market

Reds Put Out Trade Feelers With bees — West, Turner, Lopez, Errickson Mentioned in Early Talks

Frank Frisch Not to Swap ‘To Get New Faces’ – Believes He Can ‘Do Something’ With Bucs as They Stand

Connie Mack Gives Fancy Chicks for Besse – Joyce, Page and Barna Included in Deal for Memphis Hurler

Nat ‘Boy Wonder’ Set for 17th Year — Only Connie Mack Outranks Bucky Harris in Service as Manager

Babe Dahlgren – Stepchild Among Major First Basemen, Learned Fielding Skill as Toddler from His Stepfather – Found Way to Regular Job Blocked First by Foxx, Then by Gehrig – with 3 photos of Babe Dahlgren

Yanks Now Concern A.L. AS Much as N.L. – Failure to Draw Million Hints Fans Are Tiring of Winner

Ted Williams and Charlie Keller Rated the No. 1 Stars of ’39 Freshman Team – Article with photos of rookies Williams, Keller, Jim Tabor, Atley Donald, Gene Thompson, Eddie Miller, Pete Coscarart, Barney mcCosky, Mort Cooper, Glen Russell, Mike Tresh

Article with box score – First No-Hitter at 60 Feet Six Inches, tossed by William Hawke of the Baltimore Orioles, August 16, 1893

Necrology: Obituary of Dick Kinsella

Scribes Name Bucky Walters as Most Valuable in N.L. with two photos

50 years in the Press Box, article about oldest member of the BBWA James C. “Uncle Jim” O’Leary of Boston

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

12 pages total.

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