1958-05-14 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/05/14 — 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:

“Speeding Towards New Records” cartoon featuring Stan Musial by Willard Mullin on the cover

Headline is “Stan Shoots for Moon in NL Marks” with article “Eyes Loop’s All-Time High Total of Hits — Quickest in Reaching 3,000, He Could Finish Second Only to Cobb in Big Time

Bob Turley “Wins Amazing Tag from Casey — Every Little Motion of Opponents Has Meaning for Bob”

Tony Kubek “Joins Army–Marches Back to Yankees for Awhile — Tony Will Be Called as Six-Month GI on September 4; ‘Wait ‘Til Mantle, Yogi Start Hitting,’ Casey Warns”

“Ex-Shortstop Shifts His Gears to Garden: Motor City Hails ’58 Convertible Kuenn” with large Harvey Kuenn cartoon by Amadee

“He Hit Only .237 Last Season with Six Homers: Wall-Flower Walls Blossoms Into Bruin Daisy” with photo of Rogers Hornsby with Lee Walls

Sherm Lollar

“Yanks Threaten to Retaliate on NL in War of Air Waves — Bombers May Flood Senior League Cities in Answer to Card, Phil, Bucco TV”

“New York Out of Range — LA-‘Frisco Aircasts Too Weak for Gotham”

“Novelties Become Big Business Under Dynamic Danny: Dodgers Find Champ Salesman in Goodman”

Wes Covington

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

44 pages total.

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