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...manager of the Brooklyn baseball club for 1944 will be Leo Durocher." Taylor Spink was right again...
...Sporting News thought that Durocher would promise to behave, that Rickey would offer a new contract at the same old pay ($25,000). As so often occurs in baseball, it turned out just as the News predicted. Again Taylor Spink had justified his nickname: "Mr. Baseball...
Smoke and Gloom. A stubby, stocky man of 54, with a bullet head and a grinding klaxon voice, John George Taylor Spink works seven days, six nights a week (Sunday nights off) fiercely turning out the weekly paper that is baseball's bible. In gloomy, smoke-stained offices on St. Louis' Tenth and Olive Streets, he explodes with ideas, runs up $1,400 monthly phone and telegraph bills and blasts forth the illimitable enthusiasm that makes The Sporting News so accurate and complete that even traditionally tight-fisted ballplayers buy it (15?) with their own money...
...Spink's Uncle Al founded the News, in 1886. His father nursed it into the black. In 1914 Taylor Spink took over...
...Federal League was just starting. Spink was sure a third league meant baseball's ruin, and he was out in front in the fight that licked it. Then subscribers went off to World War I, and circulation dived to 5,000 until the American League bought 150,000 subscriptions for troops overseas. Three years later Spink was fighting so bitterly in exposing the White ("Black") Sox World Series scandals that the New York Life Insurance Company refused to insure his life...