FS: 1949 MLB Baseball Writers Sporting News - Press Pass - Signed - PSA Pop 1
 

Just graded for the first time. PSA 4. This is a tough find.

1949 - Jackie Robinson - NL MVP, Ted Williams - AL MVP

Player Milestones & Integration:

Jackie Robinson: Won the National League MVP award, leading the Dodgers and becoming the first Black player to win the award.

Ted Williams: Lost the Triple Crown by the slimmest of margins (0.0002 points) to George Kell, but still led the AL in home runs (43) and tied for RBIs (159).

All-Star Game: Featured increased Black representation with players like Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Larry Doby, highlighting baseball's ongoing integration.

Signed by Baseball HOF Sportswriter J. Roy Stockton of the St. Louis Dispatch

This is a very cool piece of history. The press pass was issued to Leonard Gettelson. Leonard started sending off his statistics and tables to newspapers when he was still in his teens. Before long, his material began appearing in New York newspapers such as the World, the Press, and the Journal, and in other publications. By 1926 he was contributing to The Sporting News, Spalding’s Baseball Record Book, and Baseball Magazine. To handle this flow of material, he established the Gettelson Baseball Bureau.

Checking box scores each Sunday at the New York Public Library, Leonard ran into Ernie Lanigan, a recognized baseball “statistorian” of that period. They became friends, exchanged data, and had a working relationship that lasted for many years. They worked together putting out The Sporting News Record Book, or Dope Book, as it was sometimes called, and Leonard took it over in 1942. This effort was discontinued during World War II, but was resumed in 1949 as ONE FOR THE BOOK.

In 1953 Leonard began compiling the World Series Record Book for TSN. He also has worked on Daguerrotypes, a compilation of the all-time greats. On these and other matters he has been in close touch over the years with many baseball writers and historians.

J. Roy Stockton

Stockton was born in St. Louis in 1892.[1] He was hired by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1918, working there for the majority of his career. Beginning in the early 1930s, as a member of Christy Walsh's ghostwriting syndicate, Stockton wrote many of the articles published under Dizzy Dean's byline.[2] He also covered the St. Louis Terriers of the Federal League in 1915, served as president of the Florida State League, and was a member of the Veterans Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

Stockton died in August 1972 in St. Petersburg, Florida.[3] Stockton first wife had died in 1953; he remarried, and was survived by his second wife and a son from the first marriage.[3]

In late 1972, Stockton was awarded the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA),[4] and was honored in ceremonies at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in August 1973.

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