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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.