Archive of SportingNews.com's old SOM Baseball forum

[quote:cd7da99a16]After thoughtful analysis of current marketplace conditions for print magazines, we have decided to merge the bi-weekly (28 issues a year, including four double issues) print edition of Sporting News Magazine with our affiliated Sporting News Yearbooks. The resulting publication will continue to be called Sporting News Magazine, will be published monthly, and will generally focus on one seasonal sport preview.[/quote:cd7da99a16]

:cry:

As a teenager growing up in a rural part of Oregon, my only real contact with the game of baseball was the Saturday "Game of the Week" on NBC and my copy of the Sporting News every week. I would pore over the team and league statistics, I loved reading the team updates from each city's beat reporter, and the newspaper had an elite group of national columnists. The focus was baseball, and during the season the back pages had scant coverage of minor sports like football.

After the Spink family were bought out in the 80s, it seemed like the passion for excellence that had always been there began to fade away. Now, cable TV and the internet have finally pushed this once-great publication to the brink of extinction.

:(

:( :(

uh-oh.

I stopped getting the print copy maybe 10 years ago. Many years ago, I would look at a boxscore, and decide what would have been a better lineup.

I loved reading those little "fly" notes at the end of all the baseball team summaries each week.

[quote:95a8da3756="Palanion"]uh-oh.[/quote:95a8da3756]

Indeed.

I used to love Baseball Digest.

Received that same message in the mail. When my subscription expires I am not renewing. A once GREAT magazine that I loved to read is going to become extinct just like the Dodo Bird.

I agree with Frank. Sadly, the die was cast when TSN recently went to every other week publication; other magazines have taken this same approach and have gone quickly into the dustbin of history.

We're left with the memory of what was once great.