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1947-09-03 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/09/03 — 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 “Blocked at the Plate”
  • Headline is “Hint Shift of Dodger Series Tilts to Stadium — Plan Would Help Satisfy Ticket Rush: MacPhail to Propose Sale of Four-Game Blocks of Yank Pasteboards
  • Stan Hack
  • “Regulars of New York Americans Average Five Feet 10-1/2 Inches — ’47 Team Smallest of Yankee Pennant Winners”
  • Johnny Wyrostek
  • Charlie Grimm “to Leave Cubs? Not If Club Can Help It”
  • “They Hollered to Blue Heaven — Galan Hurls ‘Cry-Baby’ Taunt at Dodgers After Roughing-Up by Reds” with pic of Augie Dalan
  • Transcript of “No. 3 Radio Baseball Clinic: Frisch Gives Pointers on Playing Second Base”

  • “First Negro Pitcher in Major Leagues” features photo of Don Bankhead with Jackie Robinson plus article “Slam-Bang Dodger Bow for Robinson’s Roomie, New Pitcher Bankhead — ‘Overworked at Memphis,’ Says Negro Hurler, After Being Pounded by Pirates in Debut”
  • “Giants Slug Homers at Record Pace, Pitchers Give ‘Em Away Even Faster — Ott Considers Taking Hill as Staff Reels; Jansen Only Reliable Left”

  • Quartette Tunes Giants to Run Home-Run Scale — Cubs Had Only Two, Yankees Three, Who Hit More Than 20 in Setting Up League Records” with small head shots of the Giants four: Johnny Mize, Willard Marshall, Walker Cooper and Bob Thomson
  • “Braves Elliott Scales 100 RBI Peak — Clutch Counting Wins ‘Mr. Team’ Tag for Bob”
  • Earle Brucker
  • “Ted Serves Notice He’s Out to Win Bat Title; Swings for Base Hits Instead of Home Runs” about Ted Williams
  • “Yankees Pull for Dodger Series, With Television Bar, for Sellout”
  • “Kiner & Company’s Homer Act Makes Bucs Ball of Fire at Gate — Club Tops Million on Road; Scoring Records Set in Pirate-Giant Series”
  • Scott Cary
  • Billy Jurges
  • Eddie Dyer, Ben Chapman “Grilled at Philly Fan Forum — Managers Give Frank Replies to Wide Variety of Questions Tossed at Them”
  • Hal Newhouser fined $250 by Tiger manager Steve O’Neill for “indifferent performance plus his steadfast refusal to leave the pitching mound”
  • “Release of Colored Pair by Browns Viewed as Halt for Negro Experiments in St. Louis — Duo Failed to Show Batting Power or Step Up Club’s Turnstile Pace”
  • Necrology: Hugh McQuillan “Giants’ Mound Star in ’20’s Dies”
  • Under the American Association heading is “Bill Goodman, $75,000 Flyhawk, Taking Infield Route to Majors”
  • Under the Southern Association heading is “Chicks’ Hit-Happy Kluszewski Punching Ticket to Cincinnati” with photo of Ted Kluszewski
  • Full-page ad for Chesterfields on the back cover features huge image of Ewell Blackwell
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 40 pages total.