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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

    1948-05-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents May 26 1948

    1948/05/26 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Staff of No-Hitters” by Willard Mullin features Bill McCahan, Dick Fowler, and Bullfrog Bill Dietrich
  • Headline on front cover is “‘Lively Ball’ Laid to Dead-Arm Pitching — Everybody Now Swings for Distance”
  • “Looping the Loops” feature by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Eddie Joost
  • “Mack’s Cinderella A’s Cost But $75,000 – 5-and-10 Purchases Look Like a Million Bucks” with cartoon by Willard Mullin
  • Feature article on Ken Keltner with large photo
  • “What’s Wrong With Sox? Fans Yelping – Lowly Position Spurs Demand for Club’s Sale”
  • “Hat’s Off” small columns featuring players of the week with summaries of what they’ve done feature Hank Majeski of the A.L. and Stan Musial of the N.L. this issue
  • “Jackie Ungrateful to Negro Ball, Says Woman Club Owner” — Article is less than a column long but includes extensive quotes from Effa Manley asserting Jackie Robinson turned on the Negro Leagues in Ebony Magazine article “What’s Wrong With Negro Baseball?”
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more including regular columns, box scores, statistics and extensive minor league coverage
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Anne Baxter

    • 40 pages total.

    1948-02-18 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents February 18 1948

    1948/02/18 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Look Who’s Talking” by Willard Mullin featuring his famed Brooklyn Bum
  • Headline on front cover is “Hall of Fame Picks Cheapened — Lanigan: Voting Plan Draws Fire of Director, Raps ‘Forced’ Second Ballot When No Player Receives 75 Pct. of First Poll”
  • Ailing Babe in Miami to Soak Up Sunshine featuring photo of Mr and Mrs Babe Ruth
  • Article about Phillies Emil Verban and Eddie Miller
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Buddy Rosar
  • Carl Hubbell cartoon
  • Best Guess on Jackie’s Pay $15,000, Boost of 200 Per Cent Over ’47” about Jackie Robinson with sidebar article “Baird Insists K.C. Monarchs ‘Signed’ Jackie” where KC Monarchs owner TY Baird refers to Branch Rickey’s “raid” and “spiriting away” of Robinson
  • Feature on Fred Luderus, old-time first basemen who replaced Frank Chance
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including the 8 page All-Sports section which features a Willard Mullin cartoon of 18 year old figure skater Dick Button with accompanying article.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Jack Oakie

    • 28 pages plus 8 page All-Sports News Supplement for 36 pages total.

    1948-02-25 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents February 25 1948

    1948/02/25 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Acid Test for Ben” by Willard Mullin featuring Eddie Miller and Ben Chapman
  • Headline on front cover is “MacPhail Blasts Rickey in Negro Row – Denies Vote for Barrier Was Taken: Former Yankee Head Joins in Uproar Over Talk by Dodger President” with article continuing onto page two and sidebar article “Rickey Flayed Owners at Wilberforce Event” there in full as well
  • Feature article on Prince Hal Newhouser with several photos and talk of the possibility of his winning 300 games
  • “Now’s the Hour to Say Goodbye to Ice” as teams prepare to descend on Florida, California and Arizona for Spring Training
  • Short sidebar article by Ernie Harwell “Claim That Wright, Anson Made Initial Southern Trips in 1886 Debunked
  • “Prof. Feller Holds Pitching Clinic for Scribes”
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink is about “Barbering For–and With Players” with photo of Barber Jack haynes and stories of players at the barber shop
  • Article covering the death of Mordecai Three-Finger Brown
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including the 8 page All-Sports section which features a Willard Mullin cartoon of Joe Louis on the cover with article about fight terms between Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott beginning there as well. Inside the section a half-page article with large head-shot photo of pro wrestler Ed Strangler Lewis.
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features large image of Claudette Colbert

    • 28 pages plus 8 page All-Sports News Supplement for 36 pages total.

    1956-12-19 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents December 19 1956

    1956/12/19 —

  • Cover cartoon is ” What’s Cooking” by Willard Mullin showing a football player and a fighter seated atop a stove labeled “Hot Stove League” with fan below ready to light it up!
  • Headline of issue “Scott Says Yanks Didn’t Nurse Streaks – 1,307 Game Player Tells of Own Skein” featuring Everett Scott talking about both his and Lou Gehrig’s streaks
  • JACKIE ROBINSON TRADED FROM DODGERS TO GIANTS FOR $35,0000 AND DICK LITTLEFIELD … headline reads “History Maker Jackie Crosses Bridge” with two headshot photos of Robinson below, one from 1947, the other from ’56 … 4 articles in all start on this page, one each by Dan Daniel, Joe King, and Jimmy Burns plus “News Takes Jackie by Surprise–‘But That’s Baseball'” by Harold Rosenthal
  • “Greenberg Holds Teepee Flap Open to ‘Retiring Flip'” as Indians GM Hank Greenberg tries to convince Al Rosen not to retire
  • Part 1 of 2 — PEE WEE … PRIDE OF FLATBUSH … Beaned Early First Season, He’s Been Regular 16 Years” first of 2 part Pee Wee Reese feature
  • Page of N.L. batting stats includes large headshot cartoon of batting champ Hank Aaron
  • Necrology: Obituary fro Mrs. Grace Comiskey
  • 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 and other sports

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