Baseball Digest

[Guest cooby]

Been digging around and came across some Baseball Digests from 1991. My gosh what a wonderful little magazine it was! Does anybody know if they still publish it?

[Zvon]

I hope they still do and I always loved looking at those.

[batmagadanleadoff]

https://baseballdigest.com/

It's the longest running baseball magazine, ever. Still.

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[Edgy MD]

That head would look good on a roll.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gasp!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Spoiler Alert:


44 is "Kiner".

[batmagadanleadoff]

45 is "Bench".

[Guest cooby]

It's good to know they still publish!* I'll have to look for it. My sister got my very first subscription for it way back in the early 70s


*as long as they didn't go the route of most other magazines and get crappy.

[RealityChuck]

I still have the 1969 season preview issue. Their capsule prediction for the Mets: "Back to the cellar again."

Just a tad off.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I loved it when I was a kid and subscribed.

[MFS62]

I liked the rookie reports issue every year. Once rookie info was available elsewhere (The Bill Mazeroski annual magazine, Baseball America, Sporting News Baseball Guide and Rookie Reports, etc.) I stopped buying it. I hadn't realized it was still being published until I noticed it at my local Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago. Probably missed it all these years because they changed their format from pocket-sized to Street and Smiths size. I looked through it. Still won't buy it.

Later

[Guest cooby]

Its little size was part of its appeal for me

[Chad ochoseis]

RealityChuck wrote: I still have the 1969 season preview issue. Their capsule prediction for the Mets: "Back to the cellar again." Just a tad off.

This is interesting. I'd always read/thought/understood that although the grandfathers of the #LOLMets nincompoops were represented in 1969, most people with a clue knew about Seaver, Koosman, and Gentry and gave the Mets a good shot at .500 and third place. I've searched the net for 1969 preseason predictions and can't find anything.

[MFS62]

RealityChuck wrote: I still have the 1969 season preview issue. Their capsule prediction for the Mets: "Back to the cellar again." Just a tad off.

In their rookie report about Bud Harrelson, it said he had "good power for a shortstop".
Just a tad off.

Later

[Guest d'Kong76]

I have the 7/68, 11/69, 12/69, 8/72 editions (all Mets covers). I had them on eBay
for months at a basement bargain price for all four and they didn't sell. If someone
here would like them they are yours for the postage.

[Edgy MD]

cooby wrote: Its little size was part of its appeal for me

Also, magazines ending in "Digest" ought to be published exclusively in statement size by law.

[G-Fafif]

George Vass wrote virtually every article that wasn't excerpted from elsewhere. According to my biased memory, he didn't give the Mets enough respect.

I collected every issue from November 1974 to December 1987 before giving up the ghost. Its publication was the monthly highlight of my young life.

When I last saw it, it stopped being digest-sized.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember that I used to buy it irregularly, until I discovered The Sporting News in 1976 and it was love at first sight. I dropped Baseball Digest and never looked back.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I got a subscription to TSN shortly, probably immediately after discovering it. I remember taking one particular issue to school to show to a friend of mine because there was a cool picture of a Met swinging a bat with some newfangled contraption attached to the bat to create wind resistance when swinging the bat. The bat looked like the wings from a rocket ship were attached to it. This was in elementary school. Anyways, I left the issue inside my desk, and when our class came back from lunch that day, I noticed that my TSN was missing. Someone stole it.

[G-Fafif]

My dad bought me my first Sporting News the week I graduated elementary school. The Cubs "Three M's" were on the cover: Mitterwald, Morales, Madlock. He offered to get me a subscription; "It's the Bible of Baseball," he told me (a description a little out of code by then). I declined, mostly because I enjoyed going to the Cozy Nook and purchasing it every week. I had a sub to the Digest after having read it off and on for 2 1/2 years, but would get antsy when an issue hit the stands before it arrived in my mailbox. Once I was so overcome with impatience that I bought it ahead of delivery, which annoyed my mother. Once I went to college, I subscribed to TSN and continued for ten years until it became useless and I switched to SI, which I still take 25 years later.

[Zvon]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I got a subscription to TSN shortly, probably immediately after discovering it. I remember taking one particular issue to school to show to a friend of mine because there was a cool picture of a Met swinging a bat with some newfangled contraption attached to the bat to create wind resistance when swinging the bat. The bat looked like the wings from a rocket ship were attached to it. This was in elementary school. Anyways, I left the issue inside my desk, and when our class came back from lunch that day, I noticed that my TSN was missing. Someone stole it.

If you went to PS.22, that was me.

The small size was a crucial factor to me. I actually felt like some kind of authority when I could whip a Baseball Digest out of the back pocket of my jeans during a baseball discussion down in the playground.

[TransMonk]

As a Mets fan growing up in the Midwest, The Sporting News was how I kept up with the team in the late '80s.

I kept a copy of this Baseball Digest for years (image not mine...my copy is long gone). I know it was one of the first magazines that came to my house that was addressed to me.

[G-Fafif]

Zvon wrote: I actually felt like some kind of authority when I could whip a Baseball Digest out of the back pocket of my jeans during a baseball discussion down in the playground.

Teacher warned us about kids like you, always whipping it out in the schoolyard.

[batmagadanleadoff]

My dad bought me my first Sporting News the week I graduated elementary school. The Cubs "Three M's" were on the cover: Mitterwald, Morales, Madlock. He offered to get me a subscription; "It's the Bible of Baseball," he told me (a description a little out of code by then). I declined, mostly because I enjoyed going to the Cozy Nook and purchasing it every week. I had a sub to the Digest after having read it off and on for 2 1/2 years, but would get antsy when an issue hit the stands before it arrived in my mailbox. Once I was so overcome with impatience that I bought it ahead of delivery, which annoyed my mother. Once I went to college, I subscribed to TSN and continued for ten years until it became useless and I switched to SI, which I still take 25 years later.

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The first subscription TSN issue I ever received in the mail was also a Cubs cover.

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Folding Baseball Digests and stuffing them in your back pocket? That's a sin.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I don't think I have any any longer, but I'm still working on my inventory, but I
remember being a big fan of Who's Who in Baseball in addition to BG and TSN.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I don't think I have any any longer, but I'm still working on my inventory, but I
remember being a big fan of Who's Who in Baseball in addition to BG and TSN.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This was my first Sporting News. It was the first copy I ever saw, and I bought it at the 7-Eleven on Townline Road in Islip, NY in June 1976.



I still have it, somewhere.

[Zvon]

TransMonk wrote: As a Mets fan growing up in the Midwest, The Sporting News was how I kept up with the team in the late '80s. I kept a copy of this Baseball Digest for years (image not mine...my copy is long gone). I know it was one of the first magazines that came to my house that was addressed to me.

I would have gone ballistic if this copy came to me and the Mets guy was covered by the address. Even if it was just Kevin McReynolds! And yes, I would have slowly and deliberately tried to remove that.

[TransMonk]

Mike Pagliarugo was a World Champion Twin in 1991.