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1957-05-08 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/05/08 — 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:

  • “Windy City Whirlwinds” cartoon by O’Brien features the speedy Chicago White Sox on the front cover
  • Headline: “Minors Plan Far-Flung Road Shows: United States, Canada, Latin Stops Charted”
  • “25 Years Sharpen Yawkey’s Zest: Millionaires’ Owner Finds Wealth of Pleasure in Game”
  • “Dave Sisler … Destined for Stardom?” article includes a cartoon
  • “The Horrid Word” cartoon by Mullin about the spitball
  • “Lew Applies Dew to Ball Says Ex-Pal: ‘Burdette Uses Spitter Only When in a Pinch,’ Bragan Quotes Dittmer as Saying” and “Burdette Ruling Means Flood of Spitters — Sukey”
  • Sherm Lollar hitting clean-up for White Sox
  • “Braves Chuckers Stacked Up Behind Haney’s Big Two: Spahn and Burdette Keep Others Waiting in Line; Home Run Parade Featured by Adcock and Aaron
  • John McHale showing he’ll be “Fast Trader as New GM of Tigers”
  • Ted Kluszewski’s aching hip
  • Hector Lopez
  • Tom Morgan
  • Dodgers 0-7 vs. Bob Friend in Pittsburgh
  • “Cards Get Pitching, Hitting–But Find They Need Fielding: Outfield Raggedness, Infield Butterfingers Prove Costly; Musial Moving Up on Many All-Timers in Hits”
  • Frank Bolling
  • “Yanks Embarass Casey by Grounding Into Too Many DPs: He’s Also Red Faced Over Losses to Young Pitchers; Kubek ‘Stengel’s Boy’ Only When He Can Get Hits”
  • “Injury Jinx Takes Another Shot at Birds — Rookie (Brooks) Robinson Hurt”
  • “Ol’ Satch Makes Luke and Bisons Respect His Age: Easter’s Slighting Remarks ‘Angers Blood’ of Paige — But He Gets Last Laugh”
  • Rawling ad features Herb Score
  • Full-page ad for The Sporting News Baseball Dope Book features a 13-inch tall image of Mickey Mantle
  • Plus Regular Columns, Standing, Boxscores, Minor League Reports, and more.

    • 44 pages total.