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1940-01-04 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1940/01/04 —

  • Headline over the masthead: Highlights of 1939 Arranged in Chronological Order — Pages 6 and 8
  • Headline Over Photos on Front Cover: Young Redbirds on the Rise Hoping to Reach Major Roost – Pictured are: John (Red) Davis – Hooper Triplett – Bob Schmidt – Dick Sisler – Matthew Surkont – Max Marshall – Walker Cooper – Eddie Murphy – Floyd Beal – John Grodzicki – Robert Doyle, with article beginning underneath: Branch Rickey Nears Goal of Making Farm System Self-Sufficient for Cardinals and Affiliates by Dick Farrington
  • Other stories

  • Paring of Sox Adds Infield Newcomer – Kolloway Obtained by Pale Hose for Rensa and Landrum
  • Billy Webb, Who Kept Traffic Moving at Third, Moves Into Front Office to Direct Chisox Farms
  • Fans Share Pay-Off From Cincy Lights – Attendance Rise Brings Better Advance-Sale Arrangement
  • Feature article on New York Yankees World Series Hero and former 1937 Newark Bear, Charlie Keller by Charles Segar with 4 photos of King Kong Keller
  • Diz’ Name Bobs Up in Cards’ Dividend – Part of Dean Sale Price Believed Tossed Into $101,520 Pool
  • Control-Plus Courage-Secret of Successful Mound Vets with photos of Paul Derringer – Sylvester Johnson – Lefty Grove – Charlie Root – Ted Lyons – Red Ruffing
  • Ol’ Casey (Casey Stengel) Pledges Emphasis on Youth, article looks at Boston Braves
  • Centennial Year Gives Game Greatest Season in History — With very large cartoon by Willard Mullin featuring some of the highlights of 1939 including a large image of Lou Gehrig who ended his consecutive games streak that year
  • Plus many other articles not mentioned, detailed minor league coverage and more
  • 10 pages total.

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