1957-02-13 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/02/13 — 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”!

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 on front cover

“Yankess Peg Rivals Signs, Cerv Reveals” — Bob Cerv says the Yankees steal signs and “Had Indians Staff Down Pat”

Willard Mullin cartoon (shown below) of Home Run Hitters from history leading to Mickey Mantle and Eddie Mathews

Bambino’s Records in Danger – Birdie Tebbetts

Home Runs and Strikeouts growing together

Bob Kury cartoon of newest Hall of Famers Joe McCarthy and Wahoo Sam Crawford along with two full pages of coverage (shown below)

“Players Pension Plan Now Finest Anywhere” — “Payments Boosted 75% and Fringe Benefits Added

“Tax Spread for Player Urged By Lane” includes photo with Ted Williams, Robin Roberts, Mickey Mantle and Stan Musial (shown below)

“Big Money Becomes Peanuts When Stars Shell Out for Taxes”

“Dodgers Too Old? ‘Might Even Be Better’ Scoffs Walt” Alston

“Phillies on Prowl for More Sock in Keystone Combo”

Bobby Thomson

Cleveland Indians Roster and Review

Gil McDougald Gets $7,000 pay hike

“Trophy Champ New Mantle Title — He’s Far Ahead” with pictures of Mickey Mantle and his various awards (shown below)

Mickey Mantle “Settles for 60 Grand, $27,000 Lift”

Johnny Temple and Roy McMillan of the Reds

Bob Friend

“Don’t Short Count Bosox as Bidders Boss Pinky Warns”

Ted Williams “Inks 90-Gee Pact, Sets Lofty Targets for ’57”

Ted Williams “Again Hits Headlines With Frank Replies in Hub — Denies Plan to Wed, Predicts 25 to 30 Homers ‘Or I’ll Quit'”

Half-page ad for Rawlings Gloves features Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, and Duke Snider (shown below)

36 pages total.

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