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1947-10-15 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/10/15 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
A few people have each time I’ve offered these, perhaps because of the outstanding condition, so for the sake of total clarity this is not a reprint but a totally original vintage issue of The Sporting News issued at the date in the title

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:

  • Headline on the front cover is “Bombers to Ban Ballyhoo in New Regime — Larry Quites With Shouts and Fortune — Weiss to Run Club Along Old Lines of Dignity; Jaunts to Tropics Ended” with a large photo of George K. Weiss in the middle of the front cover — the first 4 pages of this issue cover the end of the MacPhail era
  • Also on the cover: “Battle of Biltmore — Victory Brawl — Larry Throws Punch, Fires Weiss, Flings Tirade at Topping in Yankees’ Rowdy $10,000 Celebration”
  • J.G.T. Spink’s “Looping the Loops” column also begins on the front cover, about the World Series with a small pic of Cookie Lavagetto
  • “Life With Larry” is a full page of Larry MacPhail photos
  • “Minor Magician Brings Tricks to Majors — Meyer Not a Driver, Leads Players to Top by Teaching: with photos of Bill Meyer

    • World Series Coverage: This issue covers games 4 through 7 which include some classic moments:

  • “Never Anything Like ’47 Series for Thrills” by J.G. Taylor Spink
  • “Yanks Give A.L. 27 to 17 Bulge in Series Wins”
  • Composite Box Score of 44th World’s Series
  • Bloody But Unbowed” cartoon by Willard Mullin features his Brooklyn Bum
  • “Foruth Game: Cookie’s Rap Turns No-Hit Loss Into Dodger Victory” covers the classic fourth game where Cookie Lavagetto double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to break up Floyd “Bill” Bevens no-hitter and to win the game for the Dodgers 3-2. This particular classic game gets 2-full pages of coverage including several photos.
  • “Fifth Game: Shea’s Flinging, DiMag’s Homer Cop for Yanks, 2-1” with article and box score of Game 5
  • “Series Tops in Thrills, Low in Kicks–McGowan — Dodgers All Gentlemen, Veteran A.L. Ump Says”
  • “Sixth Game: Battling Bums Even Count on Back to Wall Fielding” includes a photo of yet another all-time classic World Series moment, Al Gionfriddo after throwing the ball he just robbed Joe DiMaggio of a home run on (the one where Joe D. always kicks the dirt rounding the bases)
  • “Seventh Game: Page’s Fine Relief Work Closes Book for Bombers” with article and box score on Game 7 which the Yanks won 5-2
  • Full page: “46 Records Set, 21 Tied in ’47 World’s Series”
  • “No. 8 Radio Baseball Clinic — Traynor Gives Advice on Playing Third Base” with photo of Pie Traynor
  • “Browns Want Boudreau? Not as a Wooden Indian”
  • All-Star Team ballot for manager, full page includes three photos with summaries of and about Bucky Harris, Burt Shotten, and Billy Southworth
  • “Braves First Sew Up Billy, ’48 Flag Next — Southworth Gets Five-Year $250,000 Pact”
  • Joe Kuhel
  • Full-page ad for Chesterfields on the back cover features huge image of Nanette Fabray
  • Plus, believe it or not, a lot more!

    • 32 pages plus 8-page “The Quarterback” section dedicated to football opening with a huge photo of Bobby Layne on the front cover with accompanying article, plus an article about Bob Chappuis and more, 40 pages total.