1957-01-30 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/01/30 — 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:

Lou Darvas cartoon of Cleveland GM and Hall of Fame slugger Hank Greenberg with his “Little Helper” on the cover

Also on cover, pitchers angry over the new 20-second rule meant to speed up the game — with no one on base the pitcher has 20 seconds to deliver the ball to the catcher or risk being called for a ball

Headline on page 2: “Call Strikes on Time-Wasting Batters” — Yogi

Duke Snider

Frank Lary and brothers

Puttsburgh Pirates roster and review

Pirate Payroll Up 50 Grand to 7th

JIm Davis

Robin Roberts pay cut to $45,000

IBM “device” brought into Phillies Office

Clem Labine

Photo of Mickey Mantle as winner of the Sid Mercer Award

“Yanks Handicap ’57 Race See Begals As Top Rival”

Gene Conley

Kerby Farrell

“Kuenn Tabs Bengals as Ready to Make Trouble for Yanks

Tigers Roster and Review

Part 1 of 2 of article about humorous experiences of Cubs Travelling Secretary Bob Lewis

“Yogi Sees a Better Season for Mickey” – article also includes a photo of Yogi Berra in street clothes with wife Carmen

George Kell Knocks at 2,000 Hit Club’s Door

Joe DiMaggio’s favorite photo – from the 1937 All-Star Game it shows DiMaggio with Lou Gehrig, Bill Dickey, Joe Cronin, Charley Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg — all Hall of Famers by ’57

“Ol Casey Howling –But Confusing– Hit at Chi Dinner

Heavier Mantle Finds $10,000 Belt too Small” includes pic of Mickey Mantle receiving Hickok jeweled belt

And in the All-Sports section:

Large Willard Mullin cartoon of Bill Russell (shown below)

Ned Irish

Celtics Hailing Heinsohn as Cinch to Hoist Rookie of Year Honors about Tomy Heinsohn

Gary Thompson of Iowa State

34 pages plus 6 page All-Sports section, 40 pages total.

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