1958-04-02 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/04/02 — 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:

“Youth’s Spring Fling” cartoon by Mullin on the cover

Headline is “Pilots Back Inter-League Swap Plan” with article “Poll Shows 12 Club Leaders Favor Change — Tebbetts’ Proposal Receives Landslide Approval; Only Emphatic No by Alston”

“Flashy Kids Spark Giant Hopes for Rise — Kirkland, Cepeda and Davenport Tabbed as Top Prospects”

“Strengthened Red Sox Carry ‘Sleeper’ Label: More Lefties to Bolster Staff, Infield Improved”

“25th Anniversary Trek by Long-Time Exhibition Opponents: Giant-Tribe Tour Still Rated Top Show”

“Ol’ Perfessor Finds No Fords or Grims in New Mound Crop: Only Duren May Survive Cut in Yank Hill Squad”

“The New Don Larsen Story, or Solid Citizen of the Yankees”

“‘Critical 3 Years Confront Game,’ Del Webb’s View — Yankee Co-Owner Sees Demand for Changes Coming; Backs Proposed Kansas City-Philly Shift as Logical”

“Entertainment Dollars Flow in New York–But Not for NL: Stage Hits Doing Overflow Biz, Yanks’ Advance Sale High”

Tito Francona

Don Drysdale “Dazzling as Dodger Pitching Shows High Polish”

“Coliseum Will Be Ready for Opener, Says Del Webb”

“Bums Being Scrubbed for LA Curtsy — Can Dodgers Duck Their Clowning Rep in New Home?” with Bum cartoon by Willard Mullin

Ernie Banks

Paul Giel

“Cardinals Wishing Boyer Were Twins in Center, at Third — Versatile Ken Progresses as Outfielder, Still Plays Hot Corner Occasionally”

Granny Hamner

R.C. Stevens

Vic Power “Hitting 4th for A’s, Sees Peso Prize for Swat Title — Puerto Rican, Batting Near .500 in Exhibitions, Puts RBI Honor on Hope List”

Plus Regular Columns, minor league reports, exhibition game box scores, and more.

40 pages total.