1947-03-05 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/03/05 — 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 “Good Field, New Fit”

Headline is “Rookie Busts Spur Move for Uniform Ball — Plan Afoot for Action by Minors — Rise to Majors Deflates High Bat Marks; Standardized Lighting Also Sought”

“Solving the Mystery of Room 1906 — How Bucs Broke the News of Signing Hank — Garlbreath Argued Three Days, Wouldn’t Take No” about the Hank Greenberg signing

“Hank Gets Secret of Homer-Hitting From Babe” includes a photo of Babe Ruth showing Hank Greenberg his grip on a bat

“Answering Eddie Collins’ Cract: Musial Can’t Carry Williams’ Glove — Ted Rated Tops for Color, Stan for Team Value — Two Stars Compared by Scribes” includes cartoon “On the Other Hand, Mr. Collins” which shows all three, Eddie Collins, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial

“Don Dan Daniel Reports on Beisbol in Habana — Luque’s Team Wins Flag With Surprise Three-Game Sweep Over Gonzalez”

Arky Vaughan “Back at 35, Slim and Trim From Riding California Range

Earl Torgeson

“DiMag’s New Surgery Disturbs Yank Mates — Joe Returns to U.S. for Second Operation on His Heel; Club Physician Assets Outfielder Will be in Shape When A.L. Season Opens”

Photo of Phil Rizzuto bunting

“Threads of Destiny Led Jack Lohrke to Giants — Warneke Predicts Rookie Will Play Out String, Wind Up as Regular Third Sacker”

Fred Lieb column titled “Mom Gehrig Still a Yank — Trophies Honoring Lou Fill Mt. Vernon Home

“Awaits 80th Birthday Honors — Pitching Tougher Today Than in My Time” says Cy Young who is also pictured

Ted Lyons “Moves to End Fix Talk; Sox Players Must Eat in Hotels — Stay Away from Gamblers, Keep the Game Clean, Ted Warns”

“Ten Will Get Bucky Walters 200; Not a Gamble, Just NL Victories

Covered in the “Necrology” section is a column and a half of text plus photo of Jack Glasscock, 86

“Roster of the St. Louis Cardinals”

“Roster of the St. Louis Browns”

Plus, believe it or not, more!

28 pages total.

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