1939-10-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1939/10/26 —

Headline over the masthead: Most Valuable A.L. Player, Page 9 — Rise of Luke Hamlin, Page 3

Headline Over Photos on Front Cover: Little Big Numbers And Lively Too These Miniatures of Majors, shorter ballplayers, pictured are: Paul Waner and Lloyd Waner – Frank Pytlak – Lynn Myers – Harold Warstler – Tony Cuccinello – Leo Durocher – Mike Kreevich – Roy Weatherly – Stan Bordagaray – Emmett Mueller

Other stories

Hank Greenberg Trading Up to Greenbacks – Briggs Doesn’t Care for Another Pay Dispute With Slugger

Dodgers Duck Out on Terms on Ducky Medwick – MacPhail Calls Talent Demanded for Medwick Out of Reach

Gabby Hartnett Rips Out Old Girders Starting His Building Program – Russell and Whitehill, Ex-American Leaguers, Who Made Cracks About ‘More N.L. Stuff’ in City Series, First to Go; Gabby’s Status With Cubs Still in Doubt Though

Connie Mack Welds First Link in New Chain System -Gets Wilmington Franchise in Expanding Interstate Loop

First Base Reports Off Base, Says N.Y. – Barrow Insists Yankees Have No Design on George McQuinn

Luke Hamlin, Once Forgotten Man of Majors, Says His Biggest Break in Game Was Fractured Arm, feature story with two large photos of Luke Hamlin

Griffith Would Eat Cake, Have it Too – Admits Planning Deals, Yet Says He’ll Not Give Up Anybody

Al Schact , Who Spread 50,000 Miles of Smiles in ’39, Mingled Groans With Grins in Minor League Marathon, feature article with large Al Schacht cartoon

Joe DiMaggio Captures Most Valuable Award in American – Yankee Outfielder Gains Honor After Missing 32 Games, with nice photo of DiMaggio in suit gripping bat

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

10 pages total.