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1958-04-09 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/04/09 — 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:

  • “Supplying Spark for New Motor City Model” cartoon by Mullin featuring Billy Martin on the cover
  • Headline is “Pearson, Cepeda Pegged as Top Rookies” with story “Nat Flyhawk, Giants’ First Sacker Shine — Little Albie Flases Color, Puerto Rican Powers Ball and Can Hit to All Fields”
  • “New Battle-Royals Loom for Bat Crowns — Ted Challenged by Mantle, Musial by Mays and Aaron” with an illustration of each of the batters mentioned
  • “Birds Billed for First-Division Flutter — Richards Rates ’58 Team ‘Potentially as Baltimore’s Best'”
  • “Trip Home Can Be Sad or Glad for Majors — Yanks Join Phillies in Series, Passing Up Minor Teams” with photo of Babe Ruth captioned “Mighty Mauler Magnet for Millions in South”
  • “Cobb and Wagner Dominated Dead-Ball Period of 1900-20”
  • Orlando Cepeda “Only 20, But Giant Flash Already Owns Two Bat Titles: Swatted .393 in Class D, .355 for C Club”
  • “Pint-Sized Pearson Wins Bouquets in Bushel Lots — Albie, at Five-Four, Good Copy, Charms Everybody–and Knows How to Play”
  • Carlton Willey
  • Vic Wertz
  • “Doby-Woodling Trade Stuns Baltimore” with stories “Gene Flopped as ’55 Oriole Cleanup Man” about Gene Woodling and “Larry to Plug Gap in Center for Cleveland” about Larry Doby
  • “TV Jackpot Report Brings Giants’ Park Project Under Fire — Downtown Group Campaigns Against Bay-View Site; Expansion of Seals Stadium Being Urged by Others”
  • “Joe E. Brown Heads Vote Drive for Dodger Stadium — Many Prominent Citizens in Group Backing Park Contract”
  • Boston Red Sox Roster and Review
  • Chuck Essegian
  • “Four Clubs to Pry Lid in Negro AL Race on May 25 — Six Started Race Last Year; Initial Half of Schedule Slated to Close on July 4”
  • Ralph Terry
  • Al Kaline “Ready for Greatest Year — Tighe”
  • Obituary this issue for Chuck Klein, “Dead at 52”
  • Plus Regular Columns, minor league reports, exhibition game box scores, and more.

    • 40 pages total.