1957-01-09 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/01/09 — 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”! This issue also includes the All-Sports News section in the middle which covers sports other than baseball such as football and basketball.

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 “Hank Urges Players to Fight Freeze” refers to story begun below “Present Draft Plan Attacked by Greenberg”

Willard Mullin cartoon on front cover

Walter O’Mally of the Brooklyn Dodgers warns: “We Could Be Forced to Take Irrevocable Step” as “Brooks Threaten to Go Elsewhere”

Yankees payroll expected to top $480,000 for 1957

Photo (shown below) of Whitey Ford & Yogi Berra outside Yankee Stadium waving their 1957 contracts

Hall of Fame article “Feller’s Next Stop in Game” (shown below) with Lou Darvas comic of Bob Feller plus 6 photos of Feller on the same page

Hank Greenberg has high hopes for Al Rosen after raise

Lou Darvas comic of Al Lopez & Tony Cuccinello (shown below)

Joe DiMaggio on Mickey Mantle (shown below)

Pressure on Don Larsen in ’57 after World Series Perfect Game in ’56

Cincinnati Reds roster

Birdie Tebbetts

Karl Spooner

Dale Long

Fred Haney: “All Crandall has to Do Is Hit .270 and He’ll Be Best in NL” about Braves catcher Del Crandall

Pete Runnels

Joe DeMaestri a Riddle to A’s

“Modest Mickey Puts Muffler on Own Might” is an article about Mickey Mantle saying Duke Snider having best shot to top Babe Ruth’s HR Record

An article spreading two full pages (quite a bit of text in this format!) by Hall of Famer Ed Walsh (part 1 of 2)

Billy O’Dell

Stan Lopata

2/3 page huge Wilson ad with Nellie Fox

Small photo of Roberto Clemente in article about Puerto Rican League

And in the All-Sports section:

Willard Mullin cartoon on first page of section

Buddy Parker

“Giant’s Gifford No. 1 Pro Gridder of Year: Rushed 819 Yards, Caught 51 Passes and Scored 65 Points”

“Giants Take Hide Off Bears to Nail Title” – “47-7 Rout Give New York First NFL Crown Since ’38”

John Brodie of Stanford

Gene Fullmer beats Sugar Ray Robinson

Chet Forte

26 pages plus 10 page All-Sports section, 36 pages total.

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