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1958-07-02 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/07/02 — 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 Inner Man” cartoon by Willard Mullin on the front cover
  • Headline is “Coast Parks Bar Lefties in Homer Race” with story “‘Frisco, LA Fields Favor Right Hitters — Only 17 Four-Basers Belted by Southpaw Sockers in Both Stadiums Thus Far”
  • Also on the cover “Writers to Vote on Plan to Pick Player of the Year”
  • “Cardinals Outlook Rosy for Years — (Bing) Devine”
  • “Red Trader Gable ‘Runs Out All Offers’ — ‘If You’re Thrown Out First Time, You Just Can’t Quit” with large Gabe Paul cartoon by Lou Darvas
  • “Tomahawk Falls in Tepee–Gordon New Medicine Man — Lane Explains He Felt Club Should Be Doing Better in Giving Axe to Bragan” in other words Bobby Bragan fired, Joe Gordon hired in Cleveland
  • “We Seemed Closed to Minor Leaguer for Long While: Rugged 30-Year Trial Took Norman to Top — Arm Injury Blocked Off Big Time Bid” about Bill Norman with cartoon “There’s a New Bite in Bengals”
  • “Players Pick All-Stars on ’58 Marks, Not Reps — Some of Big Names Left Off Top List”
  • “Big Ed Walsh, 77, Former White Sox Star, Gets Day to Remember at Comiskey Park — Ailing Ace of Half Century Ago Brought to Chicago for Salute by His Old Club”
  • Albie Pearson
  • “Yawkey Sees NL Holding Interest in New York by Video — BoSox President Watches Games Often on Return from Stay in Carolina”
  • Willie Mays “Gets 1,000th Hit as Giants Sweat to Regain Bat Touch — Willie Figures He’ll ‘Need 14 Years; to Reach 3,000”
  • “It’s Good Broadway–Horace Now a Native Son — ‘I’m Not Missing New York Much–San Francisco’s the Same Kind of Town”
  • Duke Snider’s “Bat Clicking Like New Along With Repaired Left Knee”
  • “Old-Yank Stopper Crowder Predicts They Will Stay Up Another Decade — Al, Who Won 167, Lost 115 in 11 Years, Says Stadium System Kills Off Rivals”
  • “50 Clubs in Minors Show Gate Increase; Havana Pace Setter”
  • Jack Meyer
  • Plus Regular Columns, box scores, statistics, minor league reports, and more.

    • 44 pages total.