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1957-03-27 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/03/27 — 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:

  • “Everbody’s Sweetheart in Fanciest Ensemble” cartoon by Bill O’Brien on front cover and shown at left
  • “Arizona Gains Nod in Sunshine Set-to — Four Clubs Tab State Perfect as Training Site”
  • Details on Red Sox GM Joe Cronin offering Cleveland GM Hank Greenberg $1 Million for Herb Score
  • “Quick Pitch Real Danger to Batsmen — Somebody Will Get Killed if Umpires Enforce New Regulation Fumes Lopez”
  • Photo and article about the three knuckleballers on the Cardinals: Hoyt Wilhelm, Murray Dickson and Jim Davis (shown below)
  • Marv Throneberry cartoon by Lou Darvas (shown below) with accompanying article “Throneberry Now Ripe for Yankee Job”
  • “Their Stein Overfloweth” Milwaukee Brave cartoon by Willard Mullin (shown below) with article “Haney Puts Bat King Aaron on New Spot as Brave — It’s No. 2” with small photo of Hank Aaron
  • “Not Always Great to be a Yankee, Grumble Past Players Traded to A’s”
  • New York Giants Roster and Review
  • “Present Players Durable – 80 Now in Veteran Status”
  • Bobby Doerr
  • Charlie Neal
  • Ernie Banks
  • Glen Gorbous
  • “Tighe Gives Whirl to Kuenn on Tigers’ Infield Turn Table – Harvey Tried at Third Base in Long-Range Plans”
  • Ray Boone
  • Warren Hacker
  • Al Pilarcik
  • Koufax Kindles Smokey’s Hopes With Flame Tosses” — “Sandy Flashes Speed, Curve in Gaining Back as Most Effective Dodger Pitcher” with small photo of Sandy Koufax
  • Photo of Ty Cobb with children and clown (shown below)
  • Jarald Schoonmaker
  • Bob Feller “Agrees to Film Story of His Career”
  • Johnny Vander Meer “Makes Plea to bring Back Spitball — Only Hope for Pitcher to Defend Self”
  • “Kid Killebrew Cuts Spicy Nat Figure on Cookie’s Coaching”
  • “Mantle Hits Switch Homers, But Carey’s Belt Goes Farther”

    • 40 pages total.