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1958-07-09 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/07/09 — 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:

All-Star Issue — 25th Annual Game

  • All-Star Game cartoon by Hartzell on the front cover
  • Headline is “Owners Made All-Star Game–Harridge” with story “Co-Operated Fully After Trial in ’33 — Changed Schedules for First Classic, Never Balked at Risk of Injury to Talent”
  • “McGraw — All-Time All-Star Pilot” with a image of a diamond having headshots of each of the all-time all stars pictured at their positions: McGraw, Art Fletcher, Chuck Dressen, Christy Mathewson, Carl Hubbell, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, Honus Wagner, Pie Traynor, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Babe Ruth
  • Photos of All-Time All-Stars runners-up on the following page including DiMaggio, Williams, Musial, Cy Young and other Hall of Famers
  • “Host of All-Star Game Sailing’s Gift to O.B. — Baltimore Builder Keelty Was Regular on Chesapeake”
  • “Baltimore Rise Revives Gory, Glory Days — McGraw, Robbie and Jennings Made History for Orioles” with 1895 team photo of classic Baltimore Orioles including Manager Ned Hanlon with Kid Gleason, John McGraw, Willie Keeler, Hughie Jennings, Wilbert Robinson and all of the others. Photo on following page includes Keeler, Jennings, Joe Kelley, and McGraw with Groundskeeper Thomas Murphy
  • “1933 — I Remember — 1958” are memories from the old-timers. Article: “First Game’s Participants Tell Thrills — All Felt Pride in Selection and Privilege of Playing Under Mack and McGraw”
  • “Golden Memories on Diamond Classic’s Silver Jubilee” by Dan Daniel “Whiff Show by Hub in ’34 Rated as No. 1 — Southpaw Struck Out Babe, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons, Cronin as 48,000 Roared” with photo of Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx and Simmons
  • “From Chicago in ’33 to Baltimore in ’58: Quarter-Century of Thrills, Chills and Frills”
  • Joe Gordon “Gambled He’d Get Pilot Offer — Joe Turned Down Red Sox and Tiger Coaching Chances”
  • Jackie Jensen “Grabs RBI and HR Top Spots, Keeps Bosox Afloat”
  • “Cobb, Crawford, Cochrane, Jones and All the Rest: Tiger Stars of Yesteryear Turn Back Clock”
  • Bob Boyd
  • Roy Sievers
  • “All-Star Honors Restore Snap in Aaron’s Big Bat”
  • “Improved Nuxhall Strengthens Cincy Staff for Twin-Bill Jam”
  • “Say-Hey’s Going Stop Talking, Keep Swinging to End Slump — Willie’s ‘Nobody Tells Me’ Quote Riles Rigney, Says ‘Didn’t Mean it That Way'”
  • “All the All-Star Box Scores”
  • Plus Regular Columns, box scores, statistics, minor league reports, and more.

    • 64 pages total.