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1957-10-02 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1957/10/02 — 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:

  • Banner at top: “World Series Issue — Features, Facts, Figures”
  • “Ein Stelldichein” cartoon by Mullin with Braves-Yankees represented
  • Headline is “Many Vet Stars to Go On Trading Block” with article “Top Farm Talent Dwindles; Clubs Must Deal to Fill Gaps — Contenders Realize Bold Measures Will Be Needed; Most Organizations Sekk Hill, Mitt Reinforcements
  • “Lefty Was There Decade Ago, Again This Year: ’57 Braves Top Boston Winner — Spahn” is about Warren Spahn comparing the 1948 Boston Braves to this season’s Milwaukee version
  • “Warhorse Always at Best in Stake Event — Slaughter, at 41, Participates in His Fourth World’s Series” with photo of Enos Slaughter in ’57 Yankees uniform and shot of him in ’42 with Cardinals
  • “Cubs’ 1907 Triumph Over Tigers Avenged Every Tenth Year Since — AL Trying to Roll Another ‘Lucky 7’ Series — NL Drubbed Each Decade Starting in ’17 — Yanks Humiliated ’27 Bucs, Swamped Giants in ’37 and Edged Brooks in ’47”
  • “Quinn Quiet GM of Tepee Tomahawkers — Tosses Posies to Competent Scouts, Pilot for Club Success”
  • “Yankee Staff — Was it Built on Pluck or Luck? Six Home-Developed Hurlers Among Ten in Coast to Pennant” with photos of home grown Whitey Ford, Bob Grim, Tom Sturdivant, Tommy Byrne, Al Cicotte, and Johnny Kucks, plus 2 additions from KC Art Ditmar and Bobby Shantz and 2 from Baltimore Don Larsen and Bob Turley
  • “Pennant Dynasty Predicted for Young Braves — Spahn, Schoendienst Only Key Men on Team Who Are Well Along in Years”
  • “MV Yank of ’57? It Was Ol’ Case Master Juggler — Mantle Below Par Physcially, Ford, Berra Slumped, But Stengel Pulled Right Strings For Another Pennant”
  • Team photos of the Yankees and Braves on the same page
  • “Gladness, Madness Mark Celebrations of Braves and City — Champagne Showers Mingled With Yells in Clubhouse; Fan Demonstrations Tie Up Traffic Till Wee Hours”
  • “Yanks Celebrate at Delayed Party — Players and Wives in Stadium Fiesta Night after Clincher”
  • “Never-Say-Die Birds Whet Fan Appetites for Lively Fight in ’58”
  • “Duke Bids Flatbush Adieu as Record-Tying HR King”
  • Ted Williams “Blazes to Flashy Finale as Batting Champ — The Splinter Puts on Homer Display, Reaching Base on 16 Straight Trips to Dish”
  • Danny Murtaugh
  • Joe DeMaestri
  • Robin Roberts “To Go? Phils Would Listen to Bids”
  • “Giants Still Facing ‘Fisco Hills, Stoneham Finds on Flying Visit — Coast League’s Indemnity Demands, Seals Stadium Lease Still to Be Settled”
  • “White Sox Were Stopped Only by Lack of Stopper — Senor”
  • Roy McMillan
  • John Goryl
  • Willie Mays’ “Wife Says ‘He Will Be Okay With Stoneham’ — ‘We’re Not Part of Hubbell-Ott-Durocher Tradition’; Only Worry Is That Say-Hey Will Be on Lots With Kids”
  • Plus Regular Columns, Standings, Boxscores, Stats, Minor League Reports, and more including football coverage.

    • 64 pages total.