1947-05-28 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/05/28 — 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 “There’s a String to Each One” showing N.L. teams jocking for position

Headline is “Yankee Shakeup Seen as Buildup Clamor Rises — Club Rocked by Larry’s Fines, Fly-or-Pay Edict — Penalties First to Be Influced Under Promotional Clause in New Contract Form; Continued Slump Brings Demands for Bolstering Bombers”

Pat Mullin

Joe Gordon “Reveals Rows With MacPhail — Called on Carpet Twice by Yankee President, Says Second Sacker, Still Sizzling — Dicked Balked at Order to Life Joe from Lineup”

Ron Northey

“Yanks Face Long Pull in Endeavor to Rebuild — Long and Hard Fight Facing Bombers in Regaining A.L. Domination”

“Pair of Mound Castoffs Carry Phillies” about Schoolboy Rowe and Dutch Leonard

“Groh Blueprints His Famed Bottle Bat — Whittled Handle and Length of Big-Barreled Club, he Explains” with photo of Heinie Groh and his famed Bottle Bat

Mickey Vernon

“Ruffled Ex-Redbird Put Pre-Season X-Ray on Former Mates: (Buster) Adams’ Forecast of Cards’ Difficulties Fulfilled”

“South African Red Sox Adopted by Yawkey as Hub ‘Farm Club’ — Equipment Shipped to Team”

Johnny Mize “Sets Modern N.L. Mark on 16-Game Run of Markers”

Augie Galen

Harry Walker

“Bombers Doing Little Blasting–But Rival Managers Are Fearful — ‘Best Club in the Long Run’ Says Mack; ‘Don’t Count Them Out’–Lyons”

Paul Lehner of the Browns

“Reds Swinging for New Cincy Homer Record — Sock 33 in First 31 Games”

“Bank Loan Brought Metkocich Into Majors — Seals Owner, Needing Cash to Meet Mortgage, Sold Outfielder” with photo of George Metkovich

Frankie Gustine

“Prince Hal Chase, Ill-Starred Marvel at First Base, Dies in California at 64” with nearly two-full pages of coverage of his death

“Spalding Sports Show” ad from Spalding features John L. Sullivan cartoon

Chesterfield ad featuring Gale Storm on the back cover

Plus, believe it or not, more!

40 pages total.

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