1958-02-12 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/02/12 — 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:

“Guys and Dollars” cartoon by Hubenthal on the front cover features Willie Mays, Warren Spah, Ted Williams and Stan Musial celebrating their new contracts

Headline is “Player Payrolls Rocket to Outer Space” with article “Teams Taking Pride in Their High Salaries — Some Stars Get More Than They Expected; Musial, Williams Hit New Peaks”

Ted Williams “Pay Up $118,500 in 19 Season — Red Sox Star Earned $6,500 as Rookie in ’39; Salary for ’58 Spirals to 125 Gs”

“Take It from an Old Master” cartoon by Willard Mullin featuring Mickey Mantle

“Good Old Days–or Days of Peanut Pay? — Matty, with 37 Wins, Drew $6,000; Walsh, 40, $5,000 — Ruth’s $80,000 Contract Started Players Upward” along with second article “Old-Timers Aren’t Envious–Cite Today’s Big Tax Bite”

“Payroll of Half a Million Means Cards Need Full Million at Gate — Musial, Dark, Ennis, Moon to Get Nearly 40 Per Cent of Huge Total in Salaries”

“Next Shift Do-It-Yourself Job? Williams May Play First to Save His Legs” with large Ted Williams cartoon by Johnson and sidebar “Splinter’s Goal as Hitter to Pass Lou Gehrig’s Homer Total of 494”

“New York Still Clings to Hope of NL Return — Mayor Talks of Big Stadium in Flushing Meadows as Committee Seeks Team”

Billy Klaus

Hall of Fame Results in First Shutout Since ’50 — Carey, Base-Stealing Whiz, Tallies 136 to Pace Poll; Roush Second With 112″ with complete voting results

“Cal’s Pledge to Fans: ‘Senators Won’t Shift During My Lifetime’ — Griffith Family’s Control Strengthened at Meeting; Group Named to Study Need for General Manager”

“‘Vernon Grabbed as Work-Sharer for Wertz’–Lane — Frank Analyzed ’57 Figures and Found Vic Slumped in Latter Part of Season”

“Tiger Rookie School Includes Novice Center Fielder Kuenn — Shortstop’s Switch Tabbed as Important Project for Bengals’ Training Camp”

“Dodgers to Make It Soft for Fans–Buy 34,000 Cushions for 41 Gs”

“Campy Taking Solid Food; Still Unable to Move”

“Fans Back Frick’s Ruling on Players’ All-Star Picks — Survey Reveals Widespread Endorsement of Change as Best Slection Method”

“Ol’ Perfessor to Let Barber Pick His Spots — Casey Also Wants Sal to Aid Young Hurlers; ‘Ford Key to Whole Pitching Picture'”

Tito Francona

“Giants Mays Start Pay-TV on Small Scale This Year — Plan to Be Inaugerated in Outlying Communities”

“Stoneham Okays Final Blueprints for ‘Best Ball Park in Country’ — Cost of 45,000-Capacity Stadium May Reach $12,000,000

“Sievers Picks Mantle Most Likely to Break Bambino’s Homer Mark”

“Braves to Be Better in ’58, Says Spahn; They’ll Have to Be — We’re the Team They’ll Be Gunning for This Year; Vet Believes Hill Staff Will Be Stronger Than Ever”

Milwaukee Braves Roster and review

“Game Still Holds Headlock on Fans in Puerto Rico — Caribbean Series Receives Hand from Government”

In the section on Puerto Rico is the article Roberto Clemente “Paces Caguas Team to Sweep of Finals” with small pic of Clemente

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

32 pages plus 8-page All-Sports section for 40 pages total.