Old sporting news World Series edition (1942) - much value in this?

[Belfast1933]

I came across this October 1942 World Series edition of the Sporting News paper. Rough shape but so many cool images and other goodies!

Check out the images, stories and stats!

- Babe Ruth photo
- Joe DiMaggio photo
- Kennesaw “Mountain” Landis photo
- Connie Mack
- other images - Pee Wee Reese, Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Leo Durocher,

Also - great stories and stats with Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, famous “missed third strike by the Dodgers Mickey Owen vs Yankees in the World Series

SO great for cut and display of so many cool images, historic stories, etc.

And lastly, I LOVE the stats sections… this was the “internet” of its day!

Does this have much value in sale or trade?

[BobC]

Unfortunately, because it is a newspaper type material and print, it won't have a lot of value. It is hard to even make a guess on the overall value of your edition, as it could depend a lot on exactly what photos and stories are in it. Like the Ruth photo you mentioned that may garner some additional interest from a Ruth collector looking for a new image never before seen. And of course there is the condition of the newspaper as well then. Old newsprint is about the most fragile collectible item out there. Most TPGs, to my knowledge, don't go and encapsulate random newspaper photos and images either. Now if your edition had say some 1936 Sporting News Sports Stamps in it, which is a sort of recognized collectible set, that would be greatly different. In you case though, without being able to see all the actual stories and photos/images in the paper, along with not knowing just how fragile and bad the condition is, if it were me, I probably wouldn't spend more than say $25-$75 on something like this. And that might even be a little generous. Good luck, and still a nice item to pick up IMO.

[BobC]

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[BobC]

Now regardless of what I already said, I have thought about how neat it might be to be able to get a copy of a Sporting News magazine that originally included one of the different supplements they released over the years, like one of the M101-2 Sporting News Supplements inserts. I always thought that would be so cool to display a supplement alongside the actual Sporting News magazine it had originally been distributed with as an insert.

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by BobC

Unfortunately, because it is a newspaper type material and print, it won't have a lot of value. It is hard to even make a guess on the overall value of your edition, as it could depend a lot on exactly what photos and stories are in it. Like the Ruth photo you mentioned that may garner some additional interest from a Ruth collector looking for a new image never before seen. And of course there is the condition of the newspaper as well then. Old newsprint is about the most fragile collectible item out there. Most TPGs, to my knowledge, don't go and encapsulate random newspaper photos and images either. Now if your edition had say some 1936 Sporting News Sports Stamps in it, which is a sort of recognized collectible set, that would be greatly different. In you case though, without being able to see all the actual stories and photos/images in the paper, along with not knowing just how fragile and bad the condition is, if it were me, I probably wouldn't spend more than say $25-$75 on something like this. And that might even be a little generous. Good luck, and still a nice item to pick up IMO.

Thanks for the POV and take… as you said the photos and stories (so many in this one alone) make it a pretty cool piece, even if the value is modest!