1958-02-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/02/26 — 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:

“Such Fun…One Short Days” cartoon by Hubenthal on the cover

Headline is “Camp Gong Shows Sweeping Shake-Ups” with article “Third of Men Shifted Since Spring of ’57 — Swaps, Releases to Minors and Service Calls Bring Many Charges on Clubs”

Willie Mays “Voted ‘Most Exciting’ by Landslide — 12 of 16 Major Scribes Name Say-Hey Kid as Top Thriller” with large cartoon of Mays and photo of runner-up Ted Williams

“Advancing Age Plus Lack of Experience Equals Question Mark — Shortstop Shortage Latest Pilot Plague — Only Three Clubs Set in Each League” with cartoon “Sending Up an S.O.S. for help at SS” by Darvas

“Major Scouts Tab Siebern as Top Prospect — Rated as Most Likely to Succeed in Bids for Big Time Berths” with pics of Norm Siebern, Carlton Willey, Ron Jackson, Stan Williams, and Mudcat Grant

Jack Sanford

“‘It’s Big, SO Big,’ Says Walt on First Visit to Coliseum — Dodger Pilot Sees Left Field as Tough”

“Braves Will Focus on Kids–36 on Sunny Side of 28 — Spahn and Schoendienst Only ‘Oldster’ Regulars” with photo of Joey Jay

“Kirkland, Cepeda Top Stellar Crop of Giant Rookies — ‘Best Group of Prospects in Years,’ Declares Rigney”

“N.Y. Dailies to Cover Phil Tilts, Also Giants, Dodgers in Camp — 78 Quaker Home-Road Games on TV”

“Feller or Score Faster? Hegan Can’t Tell — Former Tribe Catcher Rates Cleveland’s Mound Stars — ‘Wynn Most Consistently Good Hurler'”

“Confident Score Rules Out Switch in Pitching Delivery” with photo of Herb Score about his comback

Ryne Duren

Brooks Robinson “Of Orioles on Own as Successor to Retired Kell”

St. Louis Cardinals Roster and review

Plus Regular Columns, major league schedules, minor league schedules, and more including 4-page “The All-Sports News” section.

36 pages plus 4-page All-Sports section for 40 pages total.

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