VintageMeld

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.

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.

Mark Buehrle retired 45 batters in a row including the 27 Rays who were part of his Perfect Game last week. I sat down tonight thinking of Johnny Vander Meer and rooting for Buehrle to set himself up for a shot to break the unbreakable record.

Pointing you to an excellent post on pre-1869 baseball publications by Dr. Steven Lomazow and editorializing on value of early baseball collectibles.

Happy 84th birthday to New York Yankee legend Yogi Berra (b. 1925) with classic images from inside The Sporting News plus some vintage wire photos showing the Hall of Fame backstop.

A look inside a couple of potentially overlooked vintage magazine back issues containing historic Jackie Robinson content. A 1947 issue of The Sporting News and a 1945 issue Life.

My brief memories of watching Mark “the Bird” Fidrych, who died at age 54 on Monday afternoon.

Looking back to April 8, 1974 when Hank Aaron went deep off of Al Downing to surpass Babe Ruth for the All-Time Home Run record with 715 career home runs.

Happy birthday to baseball Hall of Famer Cy Young (1867-1955), who we look from inside The Sporting News as it announces the creation of the Cy Young Award.

Happy Birthday to underrated pre-Ripken shortstop Bert Campaneris today. Campy anchored the infield for three straight World Champion Oakland A’s teams in the 70’s.

A look inside the July 1905 issue of Burr McIntosh Monthly, one of the few issues of the beautiful photo magazine containing sports images including a baseball shot.

Movie Collectibles Video ID Guide for 1929 Kashin Motion Picture Stars photo cards, plus some text about the W618 Movie set as well as the R316 Baseball set.

Coverage of Monty Stratton’s accident as it happened inside the December 1, 1938 issue of The Sporting News, plus notes on 1949’s The Stratton Story and more.

Not your usual Babe Ruth biography to celebrate, but instead a page on how to collect Babe Ruth on a budget centered around collecting old magazines.

Happy Birthday today to Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks! The VintageMeld takes a look at Banks’ career in brief, illustrated with images from old sports magazines.