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1947-11-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1947/11/26 — 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 O’Mealia is “That’s Injun Country, Podnuh!” featuring Thanksgiving-themed Happy Chandler
  • Headline is “Browns, Deep in Cellar, Discover Gold — 375 Grand Obtained in Two Trades — Ten Players Also Acquired From Red Sox in Swaps for Four Performers”
  • “Big Helping in Deals give Hub Merry Thanksgiving — Red Sox Get Four From Browns, Braves Land Buc Trio” with small pic of Vern Stephens
  • “First Third Basemen Gets N.L. Award — Elliott Surprise Selection as Most Valuable” with photos of NL MVP Bob Elliott of the Braves
  • “Leaps Kept Browns Looking for Lehner — Rookie Paul Rambled in and Out of Doghouse” about Paul Lehner
  • “Looping the Loops” by J.G. Taylor Spink is about Bill Yawkey
  • “Cards Paid $600 for Hornsby, Gehrig Cost Yankees $1,000 — Uncovering Stars With Famer Scout Connery” with photo of Robert J. Connery
  • Ralph Branca
  • “Baltimore Gets Big Time Fever With Talk of Bidding for Browns”
  • “MacPhail Tried to Land Kramer and Stephens for Yanks in June — Red Sox-Brown Deal Puts Pressure on Bombers to Bolster for ’48”
  • “They Won’t Walk Williams So OFten With Stephens Coming Up, Grins Ted”
  • “Catcher’s Box Suggested to Kill Intentional Pass — Cubs’ Jack Sheehan Urges Two-Base Penalty for Violation”
  • Wes Westrum signs
  • Right Field All-Star ballot with photos and brief biographies of Ralph Kiner, Willard Marshall, and Dixie Walker
  • “Rajah Top Tutor Despite Flop of Seerey, Hegan Experiments” with photo of Rogers Hornsby
  • Full-page ad for Chesterfields on the back cover features huge image of Lizabeth Scott
  • Plus, believe it or not, a lot more!

    • 28 pages plus 8-page “The Quarterback” section dedicated to football and including stories about Matty Bell, Eddie Anderson, the Cleveland Browns, and others, 36 pages total.