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The article talks about how The Sporting News is known as the Bible of
baseball.  Isn't it the other way around -- the Bible is The Sporting
News of religion.

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> 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:
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> http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=3787&pid=19769
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> 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."
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ.
> Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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