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Sporting Life (American newspaper)

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36: 129:, which was founded in 1886 and published by the Spink brothers in St. Louis. By 1890, it had "the largest circulation of any sporting or baseball newspaper" in the United States. By 1886, the publication had a circulation base of 40,000 subscribers. 119:, Thomas Sotesbury Dando, and August Rudolph. Richter was the newspaper's publisher until 1917. He hired correspondents to report from locales across the United States and continued to publish and edit the 115:. The masthead on the front page of newspaper displayed the motto (shown in image at right): "Devoted to Base Ball, Trap Shooting and General Sports." It was founded in Philadelphia in 1883 by 425: 348:
Roessner, Hero Crafting in Sporting Life, page 63. ("In 1886, when the Spink brothers established the Sporting News in St. Louis, Sporting Life had a circulation base of 40,000 subscribers.")
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was an American weekly newspaper, published from 1883 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1924, that provided national coverage on sports with a particular focus on
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also published several early series of baseball cards that were offered to subscribers. The pre-World War I baseball cards published by the
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are among the most popular and scarce in the baseball collectible business. The popular series issued by
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include the M116 series issued in 1910 and 1911 and the W600 series issued from 1902 to 1911.
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Front page on September 10, 1910, announcing the arrival of "Electric Light Ball"
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until 1917. Throughout most of its existence, it was in competition with
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Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards
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Index

Sporting Life

Francis Richter
United States
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
baseball
trap shooting
Francis Richter
The Sporting News
Henry Chadwick
LA84 Foundation
Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards
ISBN
9780983543206
"Honus Wagner W600 Cabinet Baseball Card"
"Case Studies"




"The Sporting Life"
"The Impact of Francis Richter on the Development of Baseball"
Baseball: The Early Years
350
"Hero Crafting in Sporting Life, an Early Baseball Journal"


"History of The Sporting Life and its Baseball Cards"
"Henry Chadwick (SABR Baseball Biography Project)"
"LA84 Foundation Announces Digital Recreation of "The Sporting Life""

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