1956-12-05 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents December 5 1956

1956/12/05 —

Cover cartoon is “Pushes Plans to Please Fans” by Lou Darvas featuring Nate Dolin with article beginning underneath “Tribe Veep for Major Coast Move” about Donlin

Headline of issue is “Feller Calsl All Major Players to Meet – Gala Session Dec. 10-11 at New Orleans” with small head-shot pic of Bob Feller

“Ty’s Play Tops 15 Greatest Feats – Walsh’s 40 Wins for White Sox in ’08 Rated Next by Lieb” with cartoon by Lou Darvas prominently featuring Ty Cobb at the top and Ed Walsh, Joe DiMaggio and Rogers Hornsby underneath. The Cobb feat being referred to as #1 All-Time was his winning 12 A.L. batting titles in 13 years including 9 in a row

Feature article on Moe Drabowsky with large cartoon by Lou Darvas

Full page plus feature on new Cleveland Indians manager Kerby Farrell

Article on newest Cardinal recently acquired from the Phillies, Del Ennis

A quarter-page article puts the sleeves back on Ted Kluszewski — MLB standardizes uniform sleeve length

Jacksonville Minors’ Host After 15 Years – Florida Metropolis Was Training Base for Nats in 1888

Necrology: Tragic obituary covers air crash death of Cardinals Charley Peete, his wife and three children

Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page “The All-Sports News” section covering football with the All-America choices on the cover of the section highlighted by Player of the Year Tom McDonald and more notably smaller pics of fellow choices Paul Hornung and Jim Brown; full page with photo featuring Charley Conerly

40 pages plus 8-page “The All-Sports News” section for 48 pages total.