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Written on the day of the 2009 Tigers-Twins playin game, a look back at baseball as covered in an 1889 issue of Century Magazine. Plus this writer’s unsolicited 2009 playoff picks.

The concluding section of The Story of a News Story, about turn of the century publishing, as originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 10, 1903 issue.

An interview with Bob of the Star Wars Magazine Reference Guide, a visual checklist to over 1,200 periodicals referencing the original Star Wars Trilogy.

We continue with Part 4 of 6 of The Story of a News Story, about turn of the century publishing, as originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 10, 1903 issue.

Get them while you can! eBay seller wherens2008 offering these 2 early Marilyn Monroe magazine cover appearances, from Laff Magazine in 1946 and 1947 as Norma Jean Dougherty.

The 3rd of 6 parts of The Story of a News Story, about turn of the century publishing, as originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 10, 1903 issue.

You’ll find some incredible articles hidden inside the pages of old issues of The Sporting News. The obituary of legendary Josh Gibson, now that one was really hidden! We take a look at those two paragraphs and compare to coverage some other baseball stars were given inside TSN that year at their passing.

While paging through the business section of the paper this week I happened upon a brief story about Norman Rockwell themed restaurants coming soon to Long Island.

The 2nd of 6 parts of The Story of a News Story, about turn of the century publishing, as originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 10, 1903 issue.

A look at the history of Wisdom Magazine from Volume 1, Number 1 in 1956 and what happened with publisher Leon Gutterman after the magazine ceased publication in 1964. Partial checklist included.

The first of 6 parts of The Story of a News Story as originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, October 10, 1903 issue.

An interesting look back in the history of collecting, this time in the form of fiction by Joseph C Lincoln. Let the buyer beware in The Antiquers, published 1906.

Text of a full-page ad published by Motion Picture Magazine in their December 1961 issue reminding all that they’ve been around since February 1911, or longer than Photoplay.

Happy birthday to Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), with a gallery of Hemingway magazine appearances and cover shots as well as Hemingway resources including a magazine bibliography.

Part 5, the conclusion, of Greenroom Stories, an article about theatre stars reprinted from its original appearance in the Saturday Evening Post, June 3, 1905.