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1947-06-25 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/06/25 — 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 “The St. Louis Kid” featuring Bob Dillinger
  • Headline is “Griffith Blast Blows Lid on Barnstorm Issue — Feller Burns Over Charge Trip Hurt Vernon, Musial — 30 Days Too Long, Declares Washington Club Owner; ‘Somebody Ought to Tell Griff That Mickey never Was .353 Hitter,’ Replies Cleveland Ace”
  • “Bob Feller Yells for Uniform Pitching Mounds — Indian Urges Same Height, Gradual Slope — Declares Pitching Rubbers Should Be Set in Flat Peak on Elevation”
  • “Wallpaper Salesman Set Success pattern for His Son — Ball-Playing Pop Coached Spahn to Top” with large Warren Spahn cartoon and a photo of his four sisters
  • “Cardinals Strike Stride, Head for Higher Hurdles — ‘We’re on the Way,’ Says Eddie Dyer as Club Bowls Over Opponents on Home Stand”
  • “Win or Else–Breadon’s Policy on Pilots — July and November Dangerous Months on Calendars of Cardinal Managers” with pics of several past Cardinal manager including Branch Rickey, Rogers Hornsby, Gabby Street, Frankie Frisch, Eddie Dyer and others
  • “Yawkey Opposed to Arc, Gives Fans the Best — Light Outlay Runs Close to $250,000 — Intensity Called Sharpest in Majors; Some Spots Found Too Bright” with photo of lights on at Fenway Park as Sox get ready to play night ball for the first time
  • “3-Ace Braves See Voiselle as Fourth — Ex-Giant Being Groomed to Join Spahn, Sain and Barrett as Hill Dependables”
  • “Giant Slug Parade Slowed by Pitching — Inability of Macers to Keep Team Winning Spotlights Lack of Hill Ace, But Club Always Comes Up With a Stopper”
  • “Curfew Balks Rickey in Late Bid to Bolster Brooklyn’s Reserves — Dodger Prexy, Alarmed by Four Straight Losses to Cards, Tries to Swing 11th-Hour Deal With Pittsburgh”
  • “Connie Waves Scorecard in Greeting to Surprised First-Division Neighbors — A’s Show Signs of Keeping in Top Flight”
  • “Critical Shafts Spur Feller to 30-Win Aim — Bob Blazing Ball for Whiffs; Klieman Giving Indians Effective Relief Work”
  • Hal Newhouser
  • “Keeler Was Harder to Fool Than Cobb, Cy Young Claims” by Jack Ledden of the Cleveland News
  • Mickey Vernon
  • “Kiner Credits His Clout Carnival to Tops From Roomie Greenberg — Hank Induced Ralph to Move Closer to the Plate and Spread Feet More” with photo of Ralph Kiner & Hank Greenberg
  • Charlie Keller
  • Joe Page
  • Claude Passeau
  • “Ball-of-Fire Blackie in No-Hit Blaze, Stops Braves With Zeroes for 10th Win” is about Ewell Blackwell no-hitting the Braves
  • “Joe DiMaggio Discovers on Broadway Stroll That Hits Make Many Pals” by Jimmy Cannon of the New York Post
  • Hank Borowy
  • “Spalding Sports Show” ad from Spalding features Pat McDonald cartoon
  • Chesterfield ad featuring Joan Bennett on the back cover
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 40 pages total.