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1958-07-16 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/07/16 — 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:

  • “Helps Self While Helping Others” cartoon of Arnold Johnson by Lou Darvas on the front cover
  • Headline is “A’s Deal With Yankees to Get Youth” with article “‘Few Willing to Trade With Us’ — Johnson — ‘I Give One Big Guy for Two Youngsters,’ He Assertsl Cites Club’s Improvement”
  • Also on the cover: “NL Weighing Expansion to 10 Clubs: New York Bid Prompts Move by Giles Loop — Four Cities Seek Franchise–AL Rejects Griffith’s Transfer Trial Balloon”
  • “Senate Takes Close Look at Game — Anti-Trust Group Questions Stengel and Standout Players” with second article “Stengel Positive in Views–But What Did He Say? Yankees’ Manager Touches All Bases at Hearing; Senators However Have Difficulty Following His Path” wtih two pics of Casey Stengel at the top of the page with quotes including “I’ve been in baseball 48 Years, there must be some good in it” and a pic of Mickey Mantle at the bottom of the page with caption “Mickey’s No Switcher as Witness” and text “‘My Views Are About the Same as Casey” Mickey Mantle testified. It was an answer that brought down the house, with the Senators having difficulty in figuring out Stengel’s views.” Photos on next page show other stars testifying: Robin Roberts, Stan Musial, Eddie Yost and Ted Williams
  • “Pitchers Steal Show in 25th All-Star Classic — Contest Fails to Produce Extra-Base Blow for First Time” with article and box score.
  • “Gehringer’s .500 Mark Tops All-Star Hitters” with long list of All-Star batting leaders from each league filling the page
  • “Cal Does About Face After His Talk of Nat Shift Stirs Up Storm — Senators’ President and His Board of Directors Go on Record as Vowing to Keep AL Club in Capitol”
  • “Struggling Dodgers Given New Blow by Shelving of Koufax — Young Southpaw Sidelined for Two Weeks”
  • “Big Boys Joey and Wes Prove Bracers for Stumbling Braves” with pics of Joey Jay and Wes Covington
  • “Dodgers Gate Tops Million, On Way to New NL Record”
  • “Giants Western Thrillers Beat ’57 NY Club on Draw”
  • “Ted Paces Red Sox in Punching Surge, But Pitching Lags — Williams Joins Jensen, Malzone, Runnels as .300 Sockers; Delock Braces Hill Staff With Successive Wins as Starter”
  • Norm Siebern
  • John McHale “Blueprints .750 Pace for Bengals in Stretch Drive — ‘Our Club Has to Win 89 If Yankees Play at .500,’ Assers General Manager”
  • Billy O’Dell
  • “Gray Eagle Raps ‘Deep’ Flyhawks on Video Show — No Chance to Catch Line Drives, Asserts Speaker, Who Played ‘Em Close”
  • Plus Regular Columns, box scores, statistics, minor league reports, and more.

    • 44 pages total.