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1957-02-06 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/02/06 — 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:

  • Willard Mullin cartoon of Emmett Kelly and the Brooklyn Bum on the front cover and shown at left
  • Also an article about the Dodgers signing Emmett Kelly
  • Frankie Frisch comes out against training camps as country clubs with rebuttals from Casey Stengel and Terry Moore
  • The new ownership of the Detroit Tigers
  • Bob Cerv one of the reasons Athletics are Stronger
  • Warren Spahn “Scratches Dodgers as Flag Threat to Braves”
  • “80-Grand Stan Aiming at Seventh Title” with photo of Stan Musial signing his 16th Cardinal Contract (shown below)
  • A full page detailing feud between Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson (shown below)
  • Tom Brewer
  • Red Sox Roster and Review
  • Tony Kubek
  • Jim Busby
  • “Murphy Levels New Attack on Griffith, Quits Nat Post”
  • Part 2 of 2 of article about humorous incidents in career of Cubs Traveling Secretary Bobby Lewis
  • Stan Lopata
  • Bill Rigney
  • Bob Kuzava
  • “Move By Giants Not Involved in Stock Offering”
  • “Senor Labels Luis Future Leadoff Star” about Luis Aparicio
  • Gus Triandos
  • “Tigers Will Surprise” Yogi Berra Tells 2,050 at Manchester
  • Oklahomans Laud Mantle as Major Leaguer of ’56” with photo of Mickey Mantle receiving the Art Griggs Memorial Award
  • “Few Phenoms Able to Make Hop from Class D to Majors”

    • And in the All-Sports section:

  • Joe Lapchick on Bill Russell “He Could Make it BIG”
  • Dick Mayer cartoon of Bill Ebben plus accompanying article
  • Hot Rod Hundley
  • Charlie Tyra

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