1957-06-12 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/06/12 — 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:

“Two’s a Crowd” cartoon by Mullin on the front cover featuring Walter O’Malley and Horace Stoneham towards the bottom of the page

Headline is “I’d Give Millions for Mantle — Johnson” with article Kaycee Owner Puts Value of $700,000 on Al Kaline: Figures He Would Get Money Back on Both Stars Over Period of Years Through Attendance Gains”

“How Pay-TV, Dodgers’ L.A. Lure, Will Work: Fans Drop 50 Cents in Box, Bars to Get Wholesale Rate”

“McDaniels of Cadrinals Revive Dean Act: Kid Hurlers Got $50,000 Bonus Each – Righthanders Lindy and Von Talk With Mound Savvy” with photo of the pair with Stan Musial

“Waners Were Outstanding Brother Act on ONe Team: Played Total of 29 Seasons With Pirates, Turned in a Combined Average of .329” with photo of Lloyd and Paul Waner

“Throw Us a Life Preserver, PCL Plea to Majors — Dodgers TV Pact Already Cancelled, says LA Scribe”

“Scare Over Yogi’s Face Injury Helps Fire Up Bombers: Hitters Explode After Freak Mishap to Backstop” with photo of Yogi Berra

“Yanks Set New Sock Mark–$5,500 Night Club Tabs: Players Shocked, Casey Irritated by Severity of Plasters”

“Girl Reporter Gets Rise Out of Daniel–And It’s Not a Bow: Subsidy and Free-Loading Dig by Doris O’Donnell Calls for Apology, Says Baseball Writers President”

“Tolerance Speaks Back to ‘Unfair’ Female Writer: Press Box Regular Bob Addie Says ‘Doris Doesn’t Know'”

“California Here We Come Off Dodgers’ Hit Parade” with short articles “Reese Shelved With Injury, Gilliam Hitting Only .250, Hodges Alone Prospering” and “Players Disturbed by Shift Talk, Fail to Perform as Defending Flag Winners”

Walt Dropo

Photo of Luis Aparicio receiving Sporting News rookie award

Dee Fondy “Swap Backfires to Plague Cubs”

Larry Raines

Jim Bunning “Now in Running as Fanning King: Tigers’ Righthander Whiffs 53 in 63 Innings to Push Pierce for Strikeout Lead”

Full-page Louiseville Slugger ad with 30+ faces of baseball stars including Mantle, Berra, Banks, Snider, Kaline, Hodges, Klu, Frank Robinson, Aaron, Ted Williams and several others

Half-page Rawlings ad features the faces of Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial and Duke Snider

Plus Regular Columns, Standings, Boxscores, Stats, Minor League Reports, and more.

52 pages total.