Just what we needed: more “smart Jew” stereotypes
The Sporting News’ Dean’s List
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Had to get a tire replaced this morning. While sitting in the waiting room, I picked up a recent copy of The Sporting News which carried feature about the questionnaires the publication would hand out to players each year in preparation for the defunct Player Register. This article included reproductions of the forms from Willie [...]
When sportswriters were fun guys
Before the Internet/cable sports era of 24/7 reporting — heck, even in the nascent days of television — back when there were only 16 big league teams, sportswriters had time to dream up such story ideas as “The Low-Down on Majors’ Big Shots,” a survey published in the Jan. 6, 1954 issue of The Sporting [...]


