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1948-01-07 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1948/01/07 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Wait Till They Try This in Brooklyn!”
  • Headline on front cover is “St. Louis Can’t Support 2 Clubs – Breadon — ‘Fan Area Smallest in the Majors’ featuring Cardinals owner Sam Breadon
  • St. Louis Interests Mustering Forces to Acquire Browns – Kentuckian ‘Fronts’ for Two Local Millionaires in Negoitions, But Muckerman Awaits ‘Firm Offer’
  • Feature article on Grady Hatton who’s switching from third base to the outfield – cartoon of Hatton with photos of stars who changed positions surrounding him including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial and others
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Bob Lemon with photo of Lemon
  • Feature article about Phil Masi with 4 photos
  • “Home Run Cup Copped for Keeps, Giants Figure” with large Willard Mullin cartoon of his Giant holding a cup for “Greatest Home Run Hitting Team in History, 1947”
  • Feature article on World Series star of the Yankees Aaron Robinson with focus on his being upset at upstart Yogi Berra being made starting catcher. There’s even a small pic of Yogi where he’s labeled “Usurper”
  • Roy Campanella “May Be Second Negro Big League Regular” includes 2 photos of Campy and makes up more than half a full page
  • Huge 2 page page center spread of photos headlined “Pictures of Year – Acrobatic Action in the Big Tent – Caught by Camera-Clickers”
  • Necrology – Obituary for George Blaeholder
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage, plus the 8page All-Sports section which covers football, basketball, hockey and other sports.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Gary Cooper
  • 28 pages plus 8 page All-Sports News Supplement for 36 pages total.

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