(SPORTS) Jackie Robinson editor Complete run of the magazine

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(SPORTS.) Jackie Robinson, editor. Complete run of the magazine Our Sports. 5 issues with original pictorial wrappers, each 11 x 8 1/2 inches, minor wear and soiling; internal condition generally strong, missing parts of 2 leaves. New York, May-October [1953]

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Billing itself as "the Negro's own sports magazine," it featured coverage of all sports, with a particular emphasis on baseball, by leading black and white sportswriters. Typical articles included "Will a Negro Ever Become Manager in the Big Leagues?", Roger Kahn's "What White Big Leaguers Really Think of Negro Players", and Jackie Robinson's own "Jackie Climbs out on a Limb," in which he predicts his own Brooklyn Dodgers to repeat as National League champs (they did). Toni Stone, the Negro Leagues' first female baseball player, is profiled in the first issue, page 15. Featured on the covers are 4 baseball players (Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, Minnie Miñoso, and Satchel Paige), plus football player George Taliaferro, the first African American drafted by the NFL. "All issues are quite scarce. Complete runs are virtually unknown"--Lomazow, American Periodicals, 2005 Supplement, S468.