1958-01-29 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/01/29 — 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:

“A Fella Has to Have Some Fun” cartoon by Basset on the front cover

Headline is “Majors’ Advance Sale Soaring to Record” with article “Dodger, Giant Orders Up to All-Time High — Yanks Will Top Own Mark; Most Clubs Report Gains Over Same Period in ’57”

“Dodgers Rush Plans for Coliseum Play — More Arc-Light Games Will Be Shifted to Torrid Months — Day Contests Concentrated in Springtime”

“Dodgers’ Coliseum Deal Saved by Bell Before Kayo Punch — Give-and-Take Session Produces Final Agreementl Revised Terms Satisfy Brokerage Firms’ Questions”

“O’Malley Aims at Gate Records in Coliseum — Sees Figure of 2,000,000 as ‘Minimum'” with cartoon “Getting Down to Business” featuring the Brooklyn Bum by Hubenthal

A page about Jimmie Foxx with photos and story “Foxx Takes Post as Miller Coach; Many Offer Help — Hall of Fame Slugger Accepts Yawkey Employment After Financial Reverses Leave Him Virtually Broke”

Harry Craft “Sets 70 Wins as Goal–Declares A’s Have Improved”

“Red Tape Delays ‘Save Reds’ Plan on Cincy Parking — $2,000,000 Bond Proposal Okayed, But Pact Signing Awaits Confab With Club”

“No Lefties Available in Deals, Bosox to Depend on Own Crop — Higgins to Look Over Kiely, Baumann, Smith, Spring, Stone in Training Camp”

“Bosox Acquire Runnels, May Use Him in Trade — Send Zauchin and Pearson to Senators

Stan Lopata

“Big Klu Charms Buc Fans and Club Brass Takes Ride on Cloud — Visits Pittsburgh, Autographs Contract and Players Join Bosses on TV in Predicting Big Year for Team”

“1,000 Salute St. Louis All-Time Team”

“Perini Believed NY Would Get ‘Another’ Team — Otherwise, Braves’ Owner Wouldn’t Have Voted for Move of Dodgers, Giants”

Chicago White Sox Roster and Review

“Giants Veterans Mueller, Rhodes Face Challenges — Don to Get Job Battle from Rookie Slugger Kirkland; Dusty Slipped to .205 Mark in Reserve Role Last Year”

Plus Regular Columns, reports from Columbia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Panama, and Cuba, and more including 8-page “The All-Sports News” section.

36 pages plus 8-page All-Sports section for 44 pages total.

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