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1947-11-19 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/11/19 — 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:

  • Cover cartoon by Nelson is “Trading Spiked Shoes for Bedroom Slippers” featuring the players retiring after the ’47 season including Mel Ott, Ducky Medwick, Red Ruffing, Hank Greenberg, Ernie Lombardi, and others
  • Headline is “Coast Demands Dual Major-Minor Status — Asks Draft Price Hike to $25,000 — Loop Wants Five-Year Pact During Transition to Full Big-Time Rating
  • Also on the cover “Buildup for Lip as Dodger Pilot Gains Speed”
  • “Browns Rate Gerheauser Tops in 4,796 Field — Touted Stars Sidetracked to Draft Lefty, 30”
  • “12 Pitchers Among 29 Drafted by Majors — 13 Clubs Join Biggest Grab-Bag Haul in Years — Total Price of $272,500 for Players”
  • “For First Time, Stirnweiss Has No One Looking Over Shoulder — Snuffy Sacks Up Yank Keystone Post” with photos of Snuffy Stirnweiss
  • “She Made It Possible for Me to Play Ball — Kiner Hit His Homers So Mother Can Quit Work” about Ralph Kiner
  • “Braves Plan Farm System So Productive They Won’t Have to Worry About Deals — 50 Officials at Organization Map Expansion Program and Analyze Players at French Lick Meeting”
  • Walker Cooper and Johnny Mize “Cornerstones in Giant Plan — Club Counts Most Positions Strong Enough; Needs Help on Mound for 1948”
  • “Stan Musial to Move Back to Card Outfield Next Year”
  • “Yankee Deals Cooked Up by News-Hungry Scribes — Writers, Like Harris, Run into Scarcity of Offerings, but Start New Move to Snare Jack Kramer; Much Depends on Keller’s Condition”
  • “Tigers Advance Red Rolfe to Head Expanding Farms”
  • Ralph LaPointe
  • “Dodgers Planning Outfield Shift for Roy Campanella, Their New Negro Catcher — Move Would Aid Righthanded Long-Ball Hitter to Garden Corps, Topheavy With Lefty Swingers”
  • All-Star ballot for Shortstops with photos and brief biographies of Marty Marion, Eddie Miller, and Lou Boudreau
  • “Robinson Named No. 1 Rookie by Chicago Writers — Comiskey Cup Another Wedge for Jackie in ’48 Salary Talks” with photo of Jackie Robinson receiving Award
  • Plus, believe it or not, a lot more!

    • 28 pages plus 8-page “The Quarterback” section dedicated to football and including Harvard vs. Yale, Jimmy Bierman, and others, 36 pages total.