1958-04-16 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/04/16 — 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:

This one’s a little special as it is the preview issue for the 1958 Baseball Issue

“California Here We Come” cartoon by Hubenthal on the front cover

Headline is “Coast Grabs Game’s Glitter From NY” with article “Ol’ Pop Knick Mourns Loss of Two Clubs — Big City Lacks Opening Day Major League Game for First Time in 69 Seasons”

“Rookies, Veterans, Fans in Stands Share Excitement: Opening Day Always High Thrill For All”

“Take Me Out to Ball Game Written on Subway in ’08 — Composer Jack Norworth Retells Story of How He Hit on Classic of Game”

“Spink Sees Tigers-Braves World’s Series — Picks Detroit and Chisox to Top Yankees”

“Chisox Will Shade Yankees, Braves to Repeat, Says Lieb — Veteran Forecast Close Four-Club Race in AL”

“Boston Barrymore Leaves ‘Em Cheering — Splinter Always Show-Stealer in Opener” with a couple of Ted Williams photos

“Washington’s Opening Day Always Packed With Color — President and ‘Everybody’ at Game; Pershing, Harding Saw ’21 Spectacle”

“Majors’ Closes Races Recorded 50 Years Ago — Three Clubs in Each Loop Battled to Wire for Flags” with small photos of stars of 1908 Frank Chance, Fred Merkle, Johnny Evers, Ed Walsh, Nap Lajoie, and others

San Francisco Giants Roster and Review

“9-Inning Pitchers Almost as Rare as Dodo — Only 356 Complete Games in NL, 354 in AL in ’57 — Major Total in Big Slide Since 1950” with “Quick on the Trigger” cartoon by Darvas

“Six Rookies Rated Spring Surprised — Pinson, Nichols Among Unheralded Group Making Grade”

Gino Cimoli

Drawing and details depicting sizes and shapes of Major League ballparks

“Players Who Made Brooklyn a Legend — Down Memory Lane with Old-Time Dodgers” is by Roscoe McGowen and includes recollections from Casey Stengel, Zack Wheat, Pete Reiser, Van Lingle Mungo and Jackie Robinson

“75 Golden Years in Brooklyn: Dodgers Grew From Dream of an Editor”

“Widow of Little Napoleon Living in Future, Not in Past: They’re Always My Giants to Blanche McGraw”

“Believer in Young Men Going West: Stoneham Sees Happy Days for All O.B.”

“Miles of Smiles and Cheers Hail Giants in ‘Frisco”

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

64 pages total.

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