1957-05-29 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/05/29 — 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:

“Drop the Handkerchief” cartoon by Mullin on front cover

Headline: Scribes Fire Back at Ted’s New Attack” with article “Writers May Seek to Curb Bitter Blasts: “If Yawkey and Cronin Had Any Guts They’d Bar You.” Slugger told by Hurwitz

Also on the front page: “A.L. Moves to Stop Bat Throwing: All Managers Given Notices for Clubhouses”

“Ford Wins Posies as Pickoff Patrolman” includes Mullin cartoon of Whitey Ford & Casey Stengel

“Hoak Changed Stance, Soared Over .350 Mark” includes a Don Hoak cartoon

Ted Kluszewski getting better

Bobby Shantz

“Casey to Lower Boom on Reeling Yanks ‘Many Things Can Be Done’ Pilot Warns: Deal Possible, Now or Later; Rich Champs Eye Outside Interests Instead of Ball” is likely the result of Copacabana fallout…sidebar article “Hank Charged With Assault; Next Hearing Set on June 21”

“Chisox on Eastern Swing Like Tidal Wave from Inland”

Jim Wilson

Harry Anderson

“Alston Getting Man-Sized Jobs From Kiddie Korps of Curvers: Podres, Drysdale, Koufax Keeping Brooks in Flag Battle”

Ray Boone

“Stricklett Says Rainy Day Led to Spitball Discovery” and “Spitball Squawks Lot of Bunk, Says Ex-Hurler O’Doul”

“Don Zimmer, Frequent Target, Defends Brushoff Pitches”

“‘Frisco Mayor Fights for Big League Bid Based on New Park”

Tito Francona hits 4 home runs in 4 days

Chuck Stobbs

Chico Carrasquel

“Dodgers Cinch to Move to LA Veeck Declares

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

44 pages total.

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