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1958-02-19 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/02/19 — 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 Word from the Wives” cartoon by Basset on the front cover
  • Headline is “Players Ask Voice on Field Standards” with article “Uniform Foul Lines, Fences to Be Sought — Athletes Also Endorse Bill to Place Business Aspects of O.B. Under Trust Law”
  • Also on the cover: “Sun Suits With Mink Stoles to Put Dent in Dodgers; Take-Home Pay”
  • Bob Feller “Outlines Player Plan to Aid Old Timers — Hopes for Radio or TV Help for Next Convention”
  • Billy Martin “Taking Shift to Short in Stride — Tabs Welfare of Tigers, Not Individual, More Important”
  • “Weiss Fires Broadside at Early Action — Majors Expected to Outlaw Any Pre-Training Games Due to Great Injury Risks”
  • “Ball Park Hostess With the Mostes: The ‘Mary Murphy of Cardinals’ Story — Shepherdess of Bird Stars for 28 Years – Always Present When Stan Signs, She’s Made Career of Helping Organizations” with large cartoon “Help, Inc., Since 1930” by Amadee
  • Full page cartoon “Southeast or Southwest … Each Camp Tells World … That It’s the Best” by Gene Basset showing Spring Training sites in Florida and Arizona
  • “Majors Book 300 Exhibitions, Three on Coast — Dodgers and Giants Saving Drama for Season Openers — Mays & Co. Will Oppose Cleveland in Los Angeles”
  • “Holdout? It’s a Nasty Word in Brown Plan — GM Joe Keeps Bucs Happy With Open-Hand Policies at Contract-Signing Time”
  • “Plans for Big Houston Park Being Mapped — Stadium Revenue Bond Vote Probable in July”
  • “British Air Disaster Stuns N.L., But Won’t Halt Season’s Flying — ‘We Have No Reason to Panic’, Says President Giles; Reds’ Gabe Paul Believes League ‘Should Reconsider'” – Article in reference to the British champion Manchester United soccer team plane disaster
  • Jim Hegan “Recalls History Making Tosses — High Tension of Three No-Hitters Still Vivid to Star Catcher — Black, Feller ‘Didn’t Think They Had It”
  • “Long Restful Nights for Case if Siebern Wins in Left Field — Norm Will Battle Deron Johnson for Problem Post; Kubek at Short, McDougald at Second Tentative Plan
  • “’20 Chapman Fatality Still Vivid to Mays” about Carl Mays beaning Ray Chapman, who died from the pitch
  • Ted Williams “Again Will Call Own Training Shots — Exhibition Game Appearances to Be Left Up to Him; Splinter Always Hard Worked in Conditioning Grind”
  • “Goodbye Broadway–Hello ‘Frisco Hello”
  • Baltimore Orioles Roster and review
  • Merv Grissom
  • Ed Roebuck
  • Gene Conley
  • Plus Regular Columns, reports from Mexico, Panama, and Cuba, and more including 6-page “The All-Sports News” section.

    • 38 pages plus 6-page All-Sports section for 40 pages total.