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1958-05-28 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/05/28 — 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 Stranger” cartoon by Willard Mullin on the cover about the Pirates
  • Headline is “NL to Make Big Changes in ’59 Sked” with story “4 Coast Trips for All Clubs, Asserts Giles — Complaints Over Five-Game Series and Back-to-Back Sets Also to Bring Action”
  • Also on the cover “’58 Bucs Labeled ‘Best in 10 Years’ — Club Features Good Power, Pitching and Defense, Plus Ability to Bounce Back After Losing Streak”
  • “Pitchers Pace Yankee Pennant Parade — Farms, Rookie School, Daring Deals Keep Curvers Coming — Hurlers Don’t Linger Long If They Lose” with photo of Pitching Coach Jim Turner with Whitey Ford, Don Larsen, Bobby Shantz, Bob Turley and Manager Casey Stengel
  • “Roberts Blows ‘Em Down, Spahn Spins Web” with illustrations of Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn
  • “He Could Play in Tuxedo and Top Hat: Vernon Slips Mickey to Old Pop Time — First Sacker, 40, Hits Ball at Lively Clip” with large Mickey Vernon cartoon by Lou Darvas
  • “Case Pulls Tight Rein on Talk of Yank Runaway — ‘Where’s Our Hitting? Stengel Asks Western Scribes; Tabs Duen ‘Find of Year,’ Calls Kubek One-Man Band”
  • Dick Gernert
  • “Ted Gets Surprise Award at Sports Dinner in Boston — Williams, Called Back to Head Table, Hears Cronin Praise Bosox Star as ‘Greatest Hitter of All Time'”
  • “Braves and Reds Duck Dusters–Giles Aims Warning at Pilots — Torre, Crandall, Robinson Hit By Pitchers; Loop President Hoists Cease-Fire Signal”
  • Frank Torre & Joe Adcock
  • “Tongue-Lash for Loes on ‘Spitball Act’ — Billy Warned by Umpires and Lectured by Richards”
  • “Early L.A. Lag Laid to Limping Pace of Dodgers’ Codgers — Snider and Hodges Fail to Hit With Former Power; Team Batting Average Far Under Marks of Opposition”
  • “Vote on Dodger Park Near–and It’s Anybody’s Game — Charges, Counter-Charges Confuse Public as LA Faces Decision on June 3”
  • “He’s Old Pro of Video in Rookie Season: Kell Clouting at .300 Clip as Aircaster” with photo of George Kell with Stan Musial and a pic of the $100,000 check received by the Red Sox from White Sox for Kell in 1954.
  • “Stan Repays Old Debt: Pucchases Home for Benefactor” — Musial buys home for Mr. & Mrs. Dickie Kerr, who had helped him out in 1940 as manager of Daytona Beach
  • Luis Aparicio
  • “Bucco Bats Keep Booming as Team Goes Into Skids — Five .300 Thumpers Led by Slugging Thomas; Club Far Ahead of Last Season’s Home Run Pace” with small pic of Roberto Clemente
  • “He’s Only 21, But a Quinn, and by Tradition He’s G.M. — John J. Jr., Son of John of Braves, Making Good at Midland in New Loop”
  • Plus Regular Columns, box scores, statistics, minor league reports, and more.

    • 44 pages total.