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1948-05-12 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1948/05/12 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Wising Up the Lip” by Willard Mullin featuring Leo Durocher and Mullin’s Brooklyn Bum
  • Headline on front cover is “‘Beat Bums’ Slogan Hits Tribe in Teeth – Lou’s Crew Hits Slump After Crack
  • Article on Stan Musial raising his average from .174 the first 12 games to .373
  • “Pittsburgh All Smoked Up Over Meyer – New Skipper Wins Vote of Fans and Players” with photo of Pirates manager Bill Meyer
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink features Braves pitcher Big Bill Voiselle
  • Willard Mullin cartoon shows his Pirate and Brave with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby out front singing their way to the pennant
  • Small article: Surgery Planned to Restore Babe’s Voice to Normalcy with photo of Babe Ruth with Babe Ruth Story stars William Bendix and Claire Trevor
  • Walker Cooper
  • Gus Niarhos
  • Another short article, just under a single column in length: Jackie, in Magazine Article, Tells What’s Wrong in Negro Ball with small head shot photo of Jackie Robinson
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Rita Hayworth

    • 40 pages total

    1948-06-23 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1948/06/23 —

  • Cover photo features Babe Ruth in uniform for the final time at Yankee Stadium as Ruth’s number 3 is retired on Yankee Stadium’s Silver Anniversary. Ruth would die
  • Headline on front cover is “Harridge, Once Night Foe, Now ‘Loves It’ – 54,480 Gate in Detroit Is Convincer”
  • Full page feature on Dutch Leonard with photos
  • Stadium Anniversary Turns Into Babe’s Day” 4 full pages of coverage includes articles “What Old-Timers Said 25 Years After Big Day,” “Bam’s No. 3 Now Goes Into Hall of Fame,” photos, cartoons, “Babe Comes Home Again” by W.C. Heinz
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Rosalind Russell

    • 40 pages total.

    1948-08-25 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1948/08/25 —

  • Cover cartoon is “All Is Confusion” by Willard Mullin
  • Headline on front cover is “Flying Dodgers Stealing Way to Flag – Burt Gives ‘Go’ Sign to Entire Club”
  • Full page feature on Vernon Bickford with photos
  • Once Proud Comiskey Dynasty Basking in Cellar – Author Burns Burns Ups Over Chisox’ Plight”
  • NATION MOURNS RUTH – 8 pages of coverage includes numerous articles, photos, cartoons, statistics, just packed with The Sporting News best possible tribute to the late Babe Ruth. 8 -page section surrounded by a full-page advertisement in tribute to Ruth on either side. This section makes this one of the, if not the single-most, desireable issues of The Sporting News to collectors
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Johnny Mize

    • 40 pages plus 8 page Babe Ruth section makes for 48 total pages.

    1948-06-30 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1948/06/30 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Lemon-Aid” by Willard Mullin which features Bob Lemon as well as Rube Marquard
  • Headline on front cover is “Players to Demand Uniform Lighting – Arc System at St. Louis Under Fire” with small head-shot photo of Dixie Walker
  • “Those Drives to Left Surprise Ted, Too” is a full page about Ted Williams with photo and Mullin cartoon plus day by day batting logs comparing 1941 and 1948 through June 21

  • “Girl Grocery Clerk Sent Scheib to A’s – Mack Gave Big Farm Boy First Tryout at 15” – feature on Carl Scheib
  • “Indians Now Shooting at 90,000 Gate”
  • Article about Herman Wehmeier with large cartoon
  • Nearly a full page article about Robin Roberts including large photo
  • Richie Ashburn “Best Base Thief for Phillies in 42 Years” with photo of Ashburn
  • Babe Honored in St. Louis – Greets Kiddies – Meets Old Nemesis – 3 photos across the top of the page plus 2 Babe Ruth articles, “Ruth Receives Trophy for his Services to Youth” (pictured receiving from Joe DiMaggio) and “Bambino and Pruett Meet Socially for First Time” (with Ruth pictured with Dr. Hub Pruett, his “nemesis” at the top).
  • “Game Unaffected by U.S. Draft This Season – 65 Pct. of Active Players in Majors Are War Vets”
  • The “Hats Off” feature is a small box featuring a player from each league with a small head-shot photo (like a player of the week). This week, it’s Stan Musial in the N.L. and Joe DiMaggio in the A.L.
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of golfer Lloyd Mangrum

    • 40 pages total.

    1948-03-24 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents March 24 1948

    1948/03/24 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Collector’s Item” by Willard Mullin featuirng the Brooklyn Bum
  • Headline on front cover is “N.L. Umps Ordered to Halt ‘Cheating’ – League Head Demands End of ‘Spitball'”
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spinks focuses on Joe Page
  • Article about Yankees pitching with photo of manager Bucky Harris with Ed Lopat and Red Embree
  • Muddy Ruel talks about Carl Mays pitch that killed Ray Chapman
  • Photo of Burleigh Grimes with Dazzy Vance with very brief article about each
  • Full page of Babe Ruth: Babe Ruth ‘s advice to Ted Williams – Don’t Hit to Left and “Old Camp Ground Visit Stirs Babe’s Memories with photo of Babe Ruth talking to Ted Williams
  • Small article about Charley Root turning down $5,000 and a role in “The Babe Ruth Story” because of his dispute with Babe Ruth’s called shot off him
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more including Exhibition Game box scores!
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Radio Star Jeri Sullivan

    • 32 pages total.

    1956-09-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1956/09/26 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Still the Champ!” by Basset featuring Babe Ruth
  • Headline on front cover: “Combine Minors into 17 Loops–Lane – Proposes All A,B,C,D Tags Be Eliminated
  • Also beginning on the cover “Majors to Change Bat Title Rule in ’57”
  • “Easy Does It for Casey’s Seventh Flag” with photo of Casey Stengel after the Yankees clinch
  • Article about Don Newcombe – “Newk, Big Strutter in Pitching Also Helps Out With the Hitting”
  • Full page featuring Sal Maglie – “‘Proved to Myself That I Still Could Pitch,’ Declares Maglie — Barber Finds Lotion in Wins as Dodger” with 2 photos
  • “Braves Pennant Drive Slows as Mound Aces Run Out of Gas”
  • Whitey Ford “Will Be Stengel’s Starter in Series Opener – In Any Stadium”
  • Article about White Sox Ron Northey
  • “Rosen to Be Traded, Hank (Greenberg) HInts; ‘I’ll Quit First,’ Flip Indicates”
  • Full page feature on the newest 200-win pitcher, Bob Lemon with large cartoon featuring Lemon
  • Stan Musial “Looks Back–Ahead to Game Streak, 3,000 Hits”
  • “20 a Year Top Thrill, Warren Spahn Felt–Until He Reached 200”
  • Obituary: Thomas J. Hickey, 94, founder of the National Association
  • Some Football coverage including schedules
  • Hat’s Off featuring brief article about each of the Players of the Week focuses on AL’s Jack Harshman and NL’s Carl Furillo
  • That’s just the highlights, many many more articles plus boxscores, stats, extensive minor league coverage, and more

    • 1938-09-10 Liberty Magazine Contents

    1938/09/10 — Cover is credited to R.J. Stuart

    Contents as follows:
    EDITORIAL:

  • Only Knowledge Can Save Democracy by Bernarr Macfadden

    • SHORT STORIES

  • The Girl Beyond the Sunset by Wilbur Daniel Steele and illustrated by Vincentini
  • Late Summer Song by Max Brand and illustrated by Trun Mowicke (sic? Tran Mawicke)
  • Night Must Come — Liberty’s Short Short by George E. Sprague

    • SERIALS:

  • The Man in My Life — Part 4 by Oscar Schisgall and illustrated by R.F. Schabelitz
  • Why I Am Still Investigating the Lindbergh Case — Part 8 by Evalyn Walsh McLean with Alan Hynd
  • Paradise Kate — Part 7 by Achmed Abdullah and Anthony Abbot

    • ARTICLES:

  • Dictators – Let Us Have More of Them by George Bernard Shaw with decoration by Stephen Grout
  • Must I Be Daffy to Be a Dodger? by Babe Ruth with photo of Ruth in Dodger uniform
  • How to Forgive Your Friends by Mae Murray
  • After Spain, What? by Dr. Gregoria Maranon
  • Is Hollywood on the Spot? by Walter Wanger and Jack L. Warner
  • Girl Takes Drink by Geraldine York and illustrated by Floherty, Jr.
  • What Makes an American? by Channing Pollock
  • The Ship Was on Fire–And I Prayed by Ray Mackenney

    • FEATURES:

  • Twenty Questions
  • To the Ladies by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin

    • $500 Cash Prize Reader Poll Contest

  • Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Vox Pop