1957-05-01 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/05/01 — 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:

“Take a Number” cartoon by Lou Darvas on the front cover

“New Fire Kindled Under Talent-Freeze: Major Group Plans Fight to End Hoarding — Club Official Urges Shorter Period of Player Controls and Draft Liberalization” is the cover story

“Spitter Banned in ’20, but Spray Lingers: Bridges, Maglie–Like Burdette–Also Accused of Pitch” with photo of Burleigh Grimes.

“Okay to Moisten Fingers, Giles Decides in Absolving Burdette

“Spit Is Still a Nasty Word to Lew Burdette” with photos of Burdette on the mound

“Cub Official Told Roger He Was Too Small, But… — Maris Always Knew He Couldn’t Miss” is long Roger Maris article with large Lou Darvas cartoon titled “Cleveland’s Candiate for Rookie of Year Honors”. Cartoon includes small Mickey Mantle looking up at Maris with a worried look

“Yanks Speeding Along Without Looking Like World Champions: Mantle Slow to Reach Form of Triple Crown Man; Shantz Proves Lefthanders Can Do Well in Fenway”

“Young Drysdale ‘100 Pct. Better’ in Campy’s Book: Don, Near Shutout in First Start, Finds One Delivery Can Make Big Difference”

Roy Sievers

Hank Aaron

Bobby Gene Smith

Bill Tuttle

Jim Wilson

Bob Friend

Both Williams and Musial Trying for 16th .300 Year”

A’s Feeling Good About Picking Up Tom Morgan from Yankees

Rawlings Ad features Stan Musial

Brooks Robinson “Flashy Oriole Rookie, Knows ‘It’s All Up to My Hitting'”

Plus Regular Columns, Standing, Boxscores, Minor League Reports, and more.

44 pages total.

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