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1947-04-02 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/04/02 — 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 “A Case of the Bends” featuring Hank Greenberg
  • Headline is “Chandler Lashes Critics in Counter-Attack — Boils Over Charges in Magazine — Labels Alleged Intercession for Indiana Gambler as Unqualified Untruth
  • “Chandler Convenes Court in Case of MacPhail vs. Dodgers” with articles “Writing Ban for Lip Seen as Outcome of Hearings” and “Outside the Gas Chamber”
  • “Lyons Leans Heavily on Five Old Men Ranging From 38 to 42 — Graybeards Fuse Silver to White Sox Lining — Red Ruffing Work Horse in Training — Caldwell, Kuhel, Lee, Appling Other Veterans Slated for Steady Service”
  • Paul Richards
  • “Secrets of Cobb’s Batting Success Revealed to His Protege — Chapman Finds Eye on Ty’s Lost Tips — Sam Digs Up Old Letters Useful to Him as Rookie” with photos of Sam Chapman and Ty Cobb
  • George Vico
  • Johnny Sullivan
  • “Rookie Southpaw on Reds Hurled 8 Army No-Hitters” with photo of Kent Peterson
  • Jack Wallaesa
  • Robinson Refuses to Join Dodgers If Resentment Exists — Negro Star Declares Main Reason He Desires Major Chance is for Bigger Pay”
  • “Hermanski Again Being Hailed As Lou Gehrig Jr of Dodgers — Gene, Who Made Unsteady Start Last Year, Pounds Ball in Spring Games”
  • Small sidebar: “Dodgers Bring Up Outfielder Snider, Whose 430-ft. Homer Impressed B.R.” with small headshot of Duke Snider
  • “Castoff McQuinn Jumps Into Middle of Yankees’ Who’s on First Muddle — Henrich’s Injury Opens Chance at Bag for Veteran, But Limping DiMaggio Still Holds Fate of Bombers”
  • “It’s All Right With Cronin and Red Sox If Bill Goodman Keeps Hitting to Left”
  • “Red Sox So Much Stronger They Look Like Different Club — That’s Sizeup by Malaney as Team Heads North; Not Only Set for ’47, But For Years to Come”
  • “Still a Frank Feller, as Tucson Discovers — Bob Says What He Thinks, Whether of Not It Pleases, Unsolicited Comment on Arizona Climate Again Shows” with small headshot of Bob Feller
  • “It’s a Different Dyer, He Admits — Last Season I Had to Prove Myself–I Couldn’t Take Chances”
  • “Stars of Two Centuries Flashed at League Park — Outgrowing Old Tepee, Indians Occupy New Wigwam — Joss-Walsh Hill Duel Stands Out” about the Indians moving from League Park to Municipal Stadium.
  • Billy Hitchcock
  • Chesterfields ad on back cover features Gregory Peck
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 32 pages total.