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1958-08-20 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1958/08/20 — 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:

  • “Brothers Under the Skin” cartoon by O’Mealia on the cover
  • Headline is “‘New Look’ Schedules to Boost Gates” with article “Earlier Start, 25 Sabbaths in ’59 Chart — Friday, April 10, Lidlifters Provide Two Big Payoff Dates at Outset of Season”
  • Also on the cover Ty Cobb “Plugs for Rice and Rixey in Hall — Better Entitled Than Some of Others Named — Peach Dodges Controversy But Urges Vet Scribes to Campaign for Old-Timers”
  • Ray Jablonski “Finds ‘Wonderful Summer’ in SF — Snails Cause Garden Problem for While But Avocados and RBI Crop Please Ray”
  • “Traded Players Top Batting, Hill Lists” with small Amadee cartoons of players discussed in article: Billy Goodman, Pete Runnels, Cal McLish, Vic Power, Jackie Jensen, Roy Sievers, Ryne Duren, Bob Turley, Bob Cerv
  • “Most Writers Nix Plan for Earlier Start — Stress Inclement Weather; Many Urge a Shorter Sked”
  • “Miracle of the Mound City: Jones Turns Into Winner as Control Pitcher” with Sad Sam Jones cartoon by Amadee
  • “Braves Again Hear Boom of Mathews, Schoendienst Bats — Both Boost Plate Averages; Jay Returns to Action; But Koppe Joins Casualty List”
  • “Dodgers Happy in Little Gray Home in West — Execs Find New Life, Commuting Up to 180 Miles a Day”
  • “Dodgers Train Guns on First-Division Target — ‘Won’t Take Much of Move to Reach Upper Bracket,’ Declares Captain Pee Wee”
  • Dick Donovan
  • “’58 Yanks Not Among My Three Best Clubs — Casey — ‘Lose Too Many Twin-Bills–He Wants to Win by 20 Games”
  • Birdie Tebbetts “Resignation For Good of Club Shakes Cincinnati — Only Two Years Ago Redleg Manager Was Acclaimed Major League Pilot of Year”
  • “67,916 Cheer Yank-Bosox Old-Timers — Event Draws Largest Regular Season Turnout Since ’51” with photo of Ted Williams with Bill Terry, Rogers Hornsby and George Sisler, Joe DiMaggio with George Kell, Ted Williams with former AL umpire Bill Grieve
  • “Game’s Most Famous Played Died Ten Years Ago: Ruth’s Mighty Slugging Feats Still Unmatched — ‘Could Have Hit Over 100,’ Says Ex-Umpire Hildebrand: Old Foul Rule Deprived Babe of Many Circuit Blows; Fences at Many Parks Also Are Shorter At Present Time” full page of text with photo of Babe Ruth shaking hands with Lou Gehrig after ’32 Series Called Shot, pic of Babe at Yankee Stadium for last time in ’48, and picture of the stone at Ruth’s final resting place
  • “Promoting Health, Teamwork and Sportsmanship: Little League Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger”
  • Plus Regular Columns, box scores, statistics, minor league reports, and more.

    • 44 pages total.