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1947-02-05 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/02/05 — 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 Willard Mullin is “Can He Find Another Wild Horse?” and features Pepper Martin
  • Headline is “Bramham Drops Scandal in Trautman Lap — Fires Five Players in Evangeline — Investigation, However, Far From Complete, Declares Retiring President”
  • “Hank-Tiger Thriller Becomes Radio Mystery — Fans Puzzled by Case of the Missing Letter — Briggs Says Club Didn’t Get Greenberg’s Request for Executive Position”
  • “Bucky to Mix Bunts with Blasts in Reshaping Yank Attack in ’47” with accompanying cartoon “Putting New Buzz Into Bombers–Brooklyn Style”
  • “20 New Players Decorate ’47 Roster of Bucs — Herman and Greenberg Top List of Pittsburgh Additions”
  • “Roster of the Pittsburgh Pirates”
  • “Heart-Throbbing Plea Made by Lip to Judge — Durocher’s Oratory, Laraine’s (Day) Emotion-Filled Appeal Disclosed by Transcript of L.A. Divorce Conference”
  • “Deans, Vance Faster Than Feller–Hubbell — But Few Smarter Than Bob, Adds Old Giant Ace, Named to Hall of Fame” with photo of Carl Hubbell
  • “Handy Orsatti Captializes on Hobby in Opening His Beverly Hills Business — Ex-Hawk, Who Liked to Make Gadgets for Friends, Now Sells ‘Em” with photos of Ernie Orsatti
  • “Thorough Test of Talent, Rather Than Victories, Ruel’s ’47 Aim With Browns”
  • Absenteeism Problem Bobs Up at Giants’ Early Boiling Camp — Lombardi Among Missing and They Say Schnozzola Doesn’t Like Contract” with small pic of Ernie Lombardi
  • “Kelley Scans 52-Year Memory Book of Game — Retirement of Millers’ Head Closes Notable Career as Player, Pilot, Owner” is a page and a half feature with photos about Mike Kelley
  • Johnny Pesky
  • Arthur H. Ehlers
  • “Dodgers to Put $300,000 Into Park Glamour — Improvements Will Include Blue and Silver Paint Job, More Boxes
  • “Day or Night, It’s All Alike at Plate to Musial, Williams, Vernon and Mize with day and night batting averages for several stars
  • “New Yankee, Groomed for Game by His Father, Selected as State’s No. 1 Professional Athlete” about Bobby Brown
  • “Roster of the Cleveland Indians”
  • Chesterfields ad on back cover features Nat Holman
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 28 pages total.