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1958-02-05 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/02/05 — 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:

  • “Where’d Everybody Go?” cartoon by Hubenthal on the front cover
  • Headline is “Feller Warns of Bonus Spree Dangers” with article “Revives Plea for Modified Reserve Pact — Head of Player-Group Urges Time Limit on Contracts with Option for Renewal”
  • Also on the cover: “Dodgers’ Opening Gate Expected to Top Tribe Mark — Indians, Braves Set Record in ’48 World’s Series Tilt With 86,288 at Cleveland
  • “Brakes Squealing on Majors’ Bonus Joyride — St. Louis Kid Sets Record with 150 Gs” with photo of bonus baby Dave Nicholson
  • “From $65 a Month in ’38…Stan at $100,000 on First Hike in 6 Years — Redbird Star Would Have Accepted Less” with photo of Stan Musial signing his contract
  • “Fan Poll Barred — Players, Pilots to Pick All-Stars — Plan Will Be Tried for Year; Performers to Cast Votes for All-Opponent Teams”
  • “Braves Wins in Series All 2-Pitcher Jobs — Spahn and Burdette Carried on Tradition Started in ’14 — Lefty James and Rudolph Set Pattern”
  • “415 Gs Gambled by Orioles on Bonus Babies Since ’54 — O’Dell First and Cheapest of Lot, Yields Biggest Dividend”
  • “P.K. Says Bidding for Untried Youths Could ‘Bust’ Game — Wrigley, However, Admits Club May Stay in Bonus Battle for Self-Defense”
  • “Wynn’s Words of Wisdom to Ball Players on Money”
  • “’58 Win-or-Quit Year, Says Robin; Has No New Pitch — Six-Time 20-Game Hurler Denies Sore Arm Report; Accepts Slice to $37,500”
  • “Date of Disaster–Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1958: Campy’s Career Ended by Auto Accident — Neck Broken, Vet Catcher is Paralyzed — ‘It Could Be Two Months, Even Years, Before Roy Can Walk,’ Says Surgeon” with cartoon of Roy Campanella, photo of the wreckage, and photo of Campy’s family.
  • “Newcombe Considered Likely Bait in Trade to Land Catcher”
  • “Coliseum Buzzing With Buzz on Scene; Changes Under Way — Webb Gets Contract, Promises Completion for Opener; O’Malley Swings Back to Brooklyn End of Operations”
  • “Accidents Fatal to Many Careers — Stratton and Gelbert Hurt Off Field”
  • “Door Left Ajar for NL Return to New York — Frick ‘Would Decide’ Despite Tabling of Territorial Rule”
  • Two huge pages in the center open up to show a drawing of Stan Musial on the left and Ted Williams on the right as the 1957 Winners of the John A. “bud” Hillerich Award
  • Bob Friend
  • “Casey Tabs Three New Ones as Yank Mound Prospects — Stengel Says Coates, Duren and Dick ‘Appeal to Me’; Perfessor Confident But Sees More Rugged Rivalry”
  • “Spike-Sharpening? Why That Was Two Other Fellows, Chirps Cobb — Says Pair of Rookies Used Files, ‘But It Was Laid to Me'” with small photo of Ty Cobb
  • Cleveland Indians Roster and Review

    • “Trader Lane Finds Yanks Talk Too Big — Tribe GM Backs Off When Bombers Want Avila as Well as Narleski in Deal”

  • “Runnels Gives Bosox Puzzle–Use or Sell? — if Pete Stays, Higgins Will Play Him at Second Base or First–Boss Likes Him”
  • Al Spangler
  • 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.