1958-05-21 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/05/21 — 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:

“The Game’s Greatest Innovater” caption with large photo of Branch Rickey on the front cover

Headline is “‘Third Major Must Come Soon’ — Rickey” with story “Believes New Loop May Be International — Minors Must Be Supported by Big Leagues In Order to Survive, B.R. Delares”

Also on the cover is “Hamey Blasts Jumbled NL Schedule” with article “5-Game Sets, Back-to-Back Series Rapped — Phils’ General Manager Also Points to Differences in Number of Trips to Coast”

“Musial Turns Top Seven Into Elite Eight” headline about Stan Musial reaching the 3,000 Hit Mark. Photo of Stan the Man kissing the bat that got #3,000, and headshots along the right side of the page of other existing members of the club (At the time: Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Nap Lajoie, Paul Waner, Cap Anson, pretty exclusive!).

“Big Poison’s Big Hit–His 3,000th in ’42 — He Refused ‘Cheapie’ Two Days Earlier” with photo of Paul Waner and his Hall of Fame plaque from 1952.

“Dodgers Dead? Jackie Stirs Up Lively Debate — Deterioration Rap Denied by Alston, Furillo” with pics of Jackie Robinson, Walter O’Malley, and Carl Furillo

Half-page Rawlings ad Congratulations Stan honors Musial for joining 3,000 hit club and has smaller head-shots of the other members

“Vet Cleveland Scribe (Ed) Bang Saw lajoie and Speaker Get No. 3,000”

“Cobb Welcomes Stan Into Club; ‘Musial Super-Star in Any Era’ — Ty Can’t Recall HIs 3,000th; ‘Didn’t Keep Up-to-Date Statistics When I Played” with photo of Musial and Cobb.

Full-page Louisville Slugger ad Congragulations to the Newest Member of the 3000 Club with large drawing of Musial and headshots of the earlier members around him.

Del Crandall’s “Clouting Helps Braves Keep Whammy on Cincy — Catcher Wins Two Games With Homer Whacks Despite Elbow Injury That Handicaps His Swing

“Big Klu Finds Home-Run Range as Bucs Bulge Batting Muscles”

“May Merry Month for Many, But for Phillies It’s Jinx — ‘Shutout’ Pitching by Roberts, Simmons Wasted; Power Man Post Without Homer in First 19 Games”

Ken Aspromonte

Bob Nieman

Dee Fondy

Inside back-cover with headline “Man, Oh Man! – Stan’s Historic Hit” is 6 photos of Stan Musial rapping out hit #3,000.

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

44 pages total.