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1946-09-25 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

1946/09/25 —

  • Cover cartoon is “Take Your Choice” by Willard Mullin featuring Ted Williams and Stan Musial
  • Headline on front cover is “Television Clause Snags Player Contract – Clubs Value New Service Over Radio
  • Lippy’s Shift to Yanks Depends on Larry’s Offer – Five-Year $65,000 Pact Figured as Possible Lure — All Other Candidates Far in Background Until Decision on Durocher; Dickey, MacPhail Depart in Anger, Prexy Asserting He Was Released
  • MacPhail Quits Major Board in Schedule Row – Resents Move to Abandon HIs 168-Game Plan
  • Cardinals Howie Pollet “Called ‘Lefthanded Mathewson'”
  • H. Roy Hamey named Pirates General Manager
  • Hardest -Working Hurler – How Feller Keeps Fit for Frequent Flinging – Barnstorming Next for Bob) features 8 photos of Bob Feller working out alongside the article
  • “Sophomore Boo Ferriss Matches Ferrell’s Feats – Dave, Like Wes, Tops 20-Victory Mark for Each of First Two Years in Majors” with photos of Wes Ferrell and Dave Ferriss
  • Article about minor leaguer Art Houtteman tags him “can’t miss”
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage.
  • Nice full-page Louisville Slugger ad on inside back cover includes headline Hats Off the the Red Sox! with photos of Tom Yawkey, Joe Cronin, Eddie Collins and players Ted Williams, Rudy York, Johnny Pesky, Dom DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover

    • 36 pages total

    1948-07-14 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1948/07/14 —

  • Banner at the top of front cover: ALL-STAR ISSUE – 15th ANNUAL GAME
  • Cover cartoon is “Always the Game of the Year” by Willard Mullin
  • Headline on front cover is Cleveland Boo-Birds Backed By Veeck – Fan’s Right to Have Fun in Own Way – Indians Chief Answers Story – Tribe Plays Better Away From Home Park
  • “High Tension Ted Against Steady Stan” with photo of Ted Williams and Stan Musial
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Rip Sewell who threw the famous eephus pitch to Ted Williams in the ’46 All-Star Game, with photo of Sewell
  • Full-page feature on Roy Campanella with large photo of the Dodgers rookie
  • Several random pages of All-Star Game preview coverage
  • 15 Original All-Stars Still Hold Posts in Game
  • Bob Quinn, New Director at Cooperstown Takes 50 Years Experience to Post
  • Satchelfoot Finally Gets Brogan Into Big League Door as Indian” with large photo of Leroy Satchell Paige with Bob Feller
  • Dream Comes True for 18-Year-Old Schoolboy Pitcher with the Braves — Johnny Antonelli
  • 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 Gerry Staley in the N.L. and Joe Gordon 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 Ralph Kiner

    • 48 pages total.

    1957-07-08 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents July 8 1957

    1957/07/08 – Front cover features “Battle of the Titans at the All-Star Game” with Stan Musial pictured on the left and Ted Williams at the right

    Baseball’s Annual All-Star Game

  • The spirit of the game in words by Robert Creamer
  • The spirit of the game in pictures by Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • A detailed Scouting Report on both All-Star teams
  • The history of Busch Stadium in a drawing by Joe Kaufman
  • A guide to St. Louis by the Footloose Sportsman, Horace Sutton

  • The Campbell is Coming – The world’s fastest boat driver prepares for a new record by Mort Lund
  • A Joy of Donkeys – An old jackass fan, John O’ Reilly, contemplates his favorite animal
  • Part 4: The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro
  • New Hope for Hopefuls – A gallery of young tennis stars in color. By William F. Talbert
  • A Boycott that Backfired – Speed and supremacy fall to America at Monza by William Rospigliosi
  • The Tragic Fourth – It was Jackie Pung’s downfall by Herbert Warren Wind
  • The Champs of 1960 – They were playing in the NCAA golf tournament by James Murray
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

    • 1957-12-23 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents December 23 1957

    1957/12/23 – Special Holiday Issue front cover features Sportsman of the Year Stan Musial at the top left, Bowl Previews at top right, plus other features covered inside on bottom half of cover

  • The Sporting Year Makes a Colorful Exit
  • The Sportsman of the Year – Stan Musial – 6-1/2 full pages of coverage including one full-page color photo of Stan the Man
  • A Special Bowl Day Football Package runs from pages 36-53
  • New Bridge Quiz by Charles Goren
  • Best in Show – A Christmas fable for dog lovers and everybody by Fred Gwynne
  • Flip-Top Zoo – A brand new cutout pastime for young and old – designed by Jerome Kuhl
  • The Silver Anniversary All-America by John Tibby – 25 football players of 25 years ago who’ve earned election to the Silver All-America
  • A Rare Bird — And a Groaning Board – The wild turkey
  • Revolution in Skiing — Part 3 by Willy Schaeffler and Robert Riger
  • Powder Snow in Oberland by Toni Frissell and Robert Wernick
  • The World of Singing Skies – A literary testament from a great sportsman-author — Lord Dunsany
  • Bothwell’s Banshees – A Californian’s collection of vintage racing cars – 2 pages in color
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

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

    1956/12/12 —

  • Cover cartoon is ” After Us the Deluge” by Willard Mullin showing the deluge of stats with related headline of issue “Giles Raps ‘Phony’ Playing Streaks” and article beginning under “N.L. Prexy Cites Musial’s ‘Appearance’ in ’55 Game”
  • Feature article with photos of new Cubs manager Bob Scheffing
  • “DeWitt Sees Minors’ Fund Job as ‘Challenge'”
  • “Busch Investment in Cards Put at $6,718,068” with additional article on page “Musial, Turned 36, ‘Sure I Can Do the Job Two More Seasons'”
  • A page of A.L. batting leaders features large cartoon headshot of batting champ Mickey Mantle
  • 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 with large cartoon of boxer Floyd Patterson by Willard Mullin on the cover of the section

    • 30 pages plus 8-page “The All-Sports News” section for 38 pages total.

    1948-06-02 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents

    1948/06/02 —

  • Cover cartoon is “One Little Line” by Willard Mullin featuring Stan Musial with brief article underneath “Musial Hitter Now, Instead of Just a Swinger”
  • Headline on front cover is “Yanks, Cards Picked in Pilots’ Poll – Same Clubs Are Favored By Players”
  • “Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink features Cardinals Ralph Lapointe this issue
  • “‘Whose Fault? … What’s Going to Be Done? Ask Fans After Dodger Dive – All Brooklyn Second-Guessing Rickey” with photo of Branch Rickey
  • Very small article notes Babe Ruth’s #3 to be Retired by the Yankees this season
  • “Frenzied Flatbush Fans Aim Their Fury at Rickey”
  • Full-page feature on Dummy Hoy as he marks his 86th Birthday
  • “Television Detours Jersey’s Fans From Parks – Customers Flock to Bars for Polo Grounds Video
  • “Rain Holds Tribe’s Try for Gate Mark to 78,431 – Drizzle Saves 81,841 Yankee Crowd Record”
  • Huge 2-page ad spreads center pages for Louisville Slugger bats with small photos of old-timers such as Honus Wagner, Nap Lajoie, Ty Cobb and others at the left of the ad and photos of bat manufacture spread across the rest of the background
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including box scores, standings, statistics, minor league coverage
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features Arthur Godfrey and Sammy Kaye

    • 40 pages total.