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1947-02-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/02/26 — 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 “Specialists All” and features Tris Speaker and Frankie Frisch along with smaller images of Rogers Hornsby and Bill McKechnie
  • Headline is “Players’ New Wealth Melts in Florida Sun — $25 Extra Stretches Into Deficit — Weekly Allowance Lures Families to Camp, With Hike in Expenses”
  • “Galbreath Gab, Greenbacks Make Hank a Buc — Slugger Signs for One Year With Pirates” about Hank Greenberg signing with the Pirates
  • “Feller Aids Entire Loop at Gate–Veeck — Indians’ Boss Fires Back at His Salary Critics” with Bill Veeck cartoon by Lou Darvas
  • “Giants Still Champs to Blanche McGraw — First Division in ’47, Flag in Three YEars Visioned by Widow of Former Manager”

  • DiMag’s Sidelining Jolts Yanks; Joe Just in Puerto Rico for Ride — Heel Delays Start of Training for Outfielder UntiL Arrival in St. Pete”
  • “The Babe Goes Home to Cheers and Tears of Waiting Fans” with three photos of Babe Ruth, plus article “Ruth, Wasted By Illness, Ends Long Hospital Stay — Wants to Look at River From Apartment Window; Separate Auto Needed for His Gifts and Fan Mail”
  • “Phillies High on Hill, 15 Range Over 6 Feet”
  • “Braves Farm Boss Uses Own Wings — Jenkins Gained Experience in 65 War Missions — He’ll Cover 15 Clubs in Air Dashes”
  • Frankie Baumholtz
  • “One-Legged Shepard to Get Hill Trial With Browns”
  • “Lippy, Opening His Heart to Scribes, Bares Yearning for Strong Hurling — Durocher Silent on Prospect of Jackie Robinson Joining Dodgers”
  • “Rickey, Relaxing on Run, Sees His ’47 Dodgers as Best Ever — All Depends on How Squad Shakes Down, Says Branch; Confidence Voiced by Players”
  • Jesse Burkett “Old-Time .400 Hitter, Finds Modern Counterpart in Ted Williams — Jesse Says Cards Play Kind of Game He Did; Wants to See Cooperstown” — with photo of Jesse Burkett as both player and “today”
  • “Cronin Visions Younger, Better, Red Sox Staff — Big Four Expected to Get Help from Lefty Johnson, Zuber, and Others”
  • “Inside of Game’s Most Famous Deals — Castoffs Lifted Basement Cardinals to Third Rung — Harmon, Konetchy and Mowrey Failed to Deliver in Buc Flannels, While Miller, Wilson, Butler, Cozy Dolan, Hank Robinson Helped Stage St. Louis Flag Pace” refers to 1913 trade
  • Lee Carey
  • “The Old Master and His Specialty” includes a photo with a few paragraphs of Honus Wagner demonstrating how he used to hone his bats
  • Chesterfield ad on back cover features actress Virginia Mayo
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 32 pages total.