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...himself as a man. Last week The Sporting News, baseball's trade paper, crowned him the rookie of the year. The Sporting News explained, carefully and a little grandiloquently, that it had made the choice solely on the basis of "stark baseball values." Wrote Editor J. G. Taylor Spink...
...sociological experiment" may not have been foremost in Taylor Spink's mind, but it was never out of Jackie's. He, his teammates and the National League had broken baseball's 60-year color line. Only two years had passed since Rogers Hornsby declared, and baseball know-it-alls everywhere had nodded in assent: "Ballplayers on the road live close together ... it won't work...
Japs and Jumps. Spink worked like a souped-up bulldozer to make his paper the international gospel of the national game. (Before the war, the News had a sizable circulation in Japan.) He ran complete box scores from 18 leagues, coverage of 21 others, weekly résumés and statistics on every team down through class D. He developed a string of 250 correspondents (the outstanding sportswriter in every city that had a team) and kept them jumping with 1,000-word telegrams and phone calls...
...Spink met World War II by changing his paper to a tabloid and introducing news of other sports, too. Circulation dipped only onefourth, to 125,000. Then Spink hit his homer: an eight-page edition for servicemen...
...Army rates sport news as a morale builder was shown last month. In pre-and post-World Series issues, Taylor Spink and The Sporting News spread themselves on coverage. So did the War Department. They shipped 500,000 extra copies overseas...