1958-03-05 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/03/05 — 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:

“Chop! Chop!” cartoon by Mullin on the front cover

Headline is “Weiss Sounds Warning on Pay Spiral” with article “New Revenue to Be Needed, He Points Out — Toll-TV, Higher Ticket Scale Will Be Required, Asserts Yankee General Manager”

“Bragan Intends to Stay in 154 Games — Won’t Repeat His Errors With Pirates — Figures to Be Less Critical, But Won’t Be Averse to Fining When Necessary”

Mickey Mantle “Signs for 75 Gees; Moving Up on Ted and Stan — Turley Also in Folk, Sievers Inks $36,000 Pact With Nats”

“Redleg Camp Overflowing With Pitching Prospects: Birdie Bright-Eyed Over Big Hill Squad”

Ryne Duren

Bob Burda

“Alston Tells Dodger Pitchers They Must Shoulder Flag Load — ‘Staff Already Fine, Could Be Great,’ He Declares; Newcombe Trim at 240 Pounds and Eager as Rookie”

Bob Rush

“Alas Poor Yorick (Brooklyn Bum), I Knew Him Well — Shakespeare Student McGowen Reminisces About Departure of His Old Friend”

Hans Lobert

Detroit Tigers Roster and review

Richie Ashburn

“22 Clubs in 6 HIgher Minors Move to New Conditioning Sites”

Rookie Roundup page includes photos of Curt Flood and Vada Pinson

Faye Throneberry

Albie Pearson

Plus Regular Columns, minor league reports, 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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