Classic Baseball Articles from The New Yorker

[Leon]

If I am not mistaking The New Yorker had Jefferson Burdick's first ever article on baseball cards.

Correction, it seems Burdick's first article was in Hobbies Magazine. The New Yorker had some other kind of baseball card article, I believe.

[marzoumanian]

Here's the scoop, Leon. I just Googled "The New Yorker baseball cards" and found that in the August 13, 1990 issue Mark Singer wrote a SHORT piece about Mr. Burdick's collection at the Met. The focus was on the donation itself and the critical role Burdick played in the hobby. I tried to read it just now BUT you need to "sign up" for archive access. Good memory!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by marzoumanian

Here's the scoop, Leon. I just Googled "The New Yorker baseball cards" and found that in the August 13, 1990 issue Mark Singer wrote a SHORT piece about Mr. Burdick's collection at the Met. The focus was on the donation itself and the critical role Burdick played in the hobby. I tried to read it just now BUT you need to "sign up" for archive access. Good memory!

In further googling, According to George Vcheck the Kaw Chief Stamp Journal from 1936 had a baseball card article.
Not sure why I was thinking 1929.
Here are a couple of interesting pieces from way back in those days...

[MikeGarcia]

...and every couple of years they have some really neat covers...

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[irishdenny]

Seems Mr Burdick was Pretty Hip wit the lingo back in 39'...
Referring to Cards and Info about them as being "Dope",
Really shows how Cool "The Man" was fir his time & even ahead of it!

Love the way he operated... His friendly organized demeanor has always added to his character in order to accomplish his goal. He was definitely the right man fir the job!

"Dankz Leon... !"

[ThomasL]

I know of at least two articles in the New Yorker that were related to the Black Sox scandal. One (which I recently found) talks about Hod Eller's pitching performance and the more famous one was from a Nov 1959 issue "Requiem for a Southpaw" about the author living next to a post banishment Lefty Williams which is the only real non-Eliot Asinof reference to a threat on Williams life during the 1919 World Series (something that there is no proof of and several baseball minds now believe didnt happen at all....I still say it is possibly true)

[ThomasL]

Oct 7, 1950 "Shine Ball" by James Maxwell, who was a 7yo Reds fan in 1919, is a reminiscence about Hod Eller and the 1919 World Series