More Sport Magazines

I've been looking through the lot of Sport Magazines I bought and found a few more interesting things.

The November, 1959 issue has a great picture of Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison.


I'm no hunter, but this picture of Frank Malzone stepping into a canoe with his rifle makes me nervous. Couldn't he set it on the dock while he was getting in? This comes from the March 1959 issue.


In that same issue, an article on expanding the league points out the "new" Metropolitan Stadium as meeting all the needs of a major league club. The Twins would play there two years later.


Speaking of the Twins, they are on a streak, winning 4 in a row. 3 against the tough Angels and a rough one against the White Sox last night. J.J. Hardy is proving to be a good pick up for the team, but I think Hudson is a disappointment so far. I guess I'll give him a few more games before I decide for sure.

Sport Magazine Lot

Yesterday I received a group of Sport Magazines that I bought on eBay. All eight magazines are from 1959 and many of them are focused on baseball.

The June, 1959 issue has both Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle on the cover, as well as Floyd Patterson. It includes an article on Mantle by the famous Roger Kahn, and of course, great old advertisements.

For instance, Stan Musial selling BB Guns:

Whitey Ford selling talcum powder:

and great color pictures of Mantle and Snider inside.


For $3.75 each, less than the cost of a new magazine, these are great entertainment and an inexpensive piece of sports history.

I am about 80% done with the Willie Mays autobiography, thanks to my recent business trip. I think next I'll read The Boys of Summer, by Roger Kahn. I think I've read it once, but that was probably 15-20 years ago (can I really be that old?).