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1947-09-17 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/09/17 — 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 “Who Said They Are Bums?”
  • Headline is: “New Chandler-MacPhail Showdown Averted — Yank Head, Happy Mum After Talk: Complete Silence Follows Series Conference; Plans for Games Announced”
  • Rookie of the Year … Jackie Robinson — Gains Award on Basis of All-Round Ability — He’s Ebony Ty Cobb on Base Paths: First Baseman Also Rates high on Defensive Play, Hitting, Team Value” with over a page of coverage and a few photos
  • Bruce Edwards
  • Alpha Brazle
  • Dodgers’ Robinson Tabbed Best on Bases Since Cobb”
  • “Dodgers Walk to Flag, Threaten Own Pass Gait”
  • “Yanks Enjoy breather, Count on Their Pitching for Edge in Fall Classic — But MacPhail Would Feel Easier If He Knew ‘How Much We Could Count on Allie Reynolds'”
  • “New Arrival Nippy Sees Quick Action With Cards — Jones Takes Over Second Base After Schoendienst’s Injury” with photo of Nippy Jones
  • “Cards Crack Back at Writer of Musial Blast in Magazine”
  • Transcript of “No. 5 Radio Baseball Clinic: Sisler Describes Art of Playing First Base”
  • Hank Greenberg “on Fence About Playing in ’48 — But If Greenberg Returns to Action, He’ll Be With Bucs Again”
  • Lefty O’Doul’s “Name Placed in Buc Pilot’s Hopper”
  • “Sidelining of Two Aces Speeds Red Sox’ Foldup — Ferriss’ Injury Proves Slower to Heal Than Expected”
  • “Giant Fans Get Chance to Gloat — Two Victories Over Dodgers Help to Take Sting Out of Season’s Frustrations”
  • Luke Appling “Tops Peckinpaugh’s Endurance Mark at Short”
  • Vernon Bickford
  • Frank McCormick
  • “Streak Hitters Help to Keep Mackmen in First Division Fight” with small photo of Ferris Fain
  • Photo of Ernie Harwell receiving a watch from the Governor of Georgia — Harwell was calling games for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association
  • Plus, believe it or not, more!

    • 40 pages total.