1947-01-01 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/01/01 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Oversized, appx. 11-3/4″ X 16-1/2″ classic The Sporting News issue printed on newsprint. The image at the left is a cropped out portion of the cover (too large to fit the whole thing on my scanner!) and there are other images below from inside this issue. Classic Sporting News from when it was “The Baseball Paper of the World”!

There is just too much packed into each issue of The Sporting News to list it all, but I have paged through this entire issue and here are some of the highlights:

Cover cartoon by Amadee features “No. 1 Men of 1946” with Stan Musial front and center, Cardinals’ Manager Eddie Dyer left of him and Red Sox Exec. Tom Yawkey at his right. Beneath them are Clay Hopper, minor league manager at Montreal, minor league player Sibby Sisti of Indianapolis, and Minor League Exec. Earl Mann of Atlanta. Accompanying article beginning on page 1 is titled “Top Officials and Players Get Citations”

“Game Sets Sights on Another Golden Year in ’47” is the headline on page 2

“Mr. San Francisco Speaks His Piece — O’Doul Claims Coast Deserves Major Status”

“New Crowd, Playing Records Featured ’46 Season — National League Pennant Playoff Highlights Year” recaps the entire ’46 season with a page of photos facing the article

“Chronology of 1946 — History of Record Year” gives a month by month recap of ’46 with a page of cartoons facing the article

“Happy Holidays at the Musial Home” is the title on a 6″ X 7″ photo of Stan Musial with his wife and two kids

Billy Southworth

Rumors of Pete Reiser being swapped to the Cardinals

Eddie Miller “Thinking About Quitting Reds”

“Better Team Won, Statistics Convince Dodger Doubters”

“Signing Tiger Big Guns First Job Facing Evans — Restoration of Farm Chain Next on New General Manger’s Calendar” with small pic of Tiger GM Billy Evans

“Lou’s All-Star Snub Rebuked in AL Figures — For Seventh Straight Year, Cleveland Pilot Was No. 1 Defensive Shortstop” with small pic of Lou Boudreau

“Greenberg Wants $10,000 Pay Boost to $75,000 If He Plays in ’47 — Hank Hints He’d Like to End Career as Yankee” with photo of Hank Greenberg holding Yankees’ jersey

“Chandler Called Lip About ’44 Dice Story” with small pics of AB Happy Chandler and Leo Durocher

“Musial in Wide Sweep as NL Batting Monarch” includes complete 1946 NL Batting Records with photos of Stan Musial, Pete Reiser, and Ralph Kiner

“Mound Figures Bolster Slender Pollet’s Budget” includes complete 1946 NL Pitching Records with photos of Howard Pollet, Murry Dickson, John Sain, and Johnny Schmitz

“Musial on Four Winners in First Four Years” with photo of Stan’s eyes

“Near Perfect Mark Set by McCormick at First” with complete 1946 NL Fielding Statistics and photos of Frank McCormick, Red Schoendienst, Buddy Kerr and others

A page of both AL & NL Slugging Pct. Leaders

“Shift of Giants to Coast Seen as Luck Omen — Club of ’33, Which Trained in West, Vaulted from Sixth to First Place”

“Figures Must Lie” cartoon by Willard Mullin regards the Red Sox

“Cuban Scribes Rap Chandler’s Gonzalez Ban — Suspension Called Unjust; National Homage for Mike Proposed” about Mike Gonzalez

Plus, believe it or not, more!

28 pages total.