the Sporting News

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Wed Feb 23 15:27:04 UTC 2011


Those of us who look to the Sporting News as a source for baseball and sporting slang may find interesting a new historical sketch of the publication:

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=3787&pid=19769

The bibliography to this article cites "Reidenbaugh, Lowell. The Sporting News: The First Hundred Years, 1886-1986. St. Louis: Sporting News Publishing Company. 1986.  See also clipping files on the Sporting News, Sporting News Research Center, St. Louis."

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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