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Sporting Life (American newspaper)

American sports newspaper

Summary

American sports newspaper

Field	Value
title	Sporting Life
image_file	Sporting Life, September 10, 1910 - "Electric Light Ball".pdf
image_size	175
image_caption	Front page on September 10, 1910, announcing the arrival of "Electric Light Ball"
editor	Francis Richter
frequency	Weekly (1883–1917, 1922–1924)
category	Sports
firstdate	1883
country	United States
based	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Sporting Life 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 baseball and trap shooting. 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." Throughout most of its existence, it was in competition with The Sporting News, 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.

The Sporting Life also published several early series of baseball cards that were offered to subscribers. The pre-World War I baseball cards published by the Sporting Life are among the most popular and scarce in the baseball collectible business. The popular series issued by Sporting Life include the M116 series issued in 1910 and 1911 and the W600 series issued from 1902 to 1911.

Back issues of the Sporting Life are accessible in digital format through the LA84 Foundation's digital sports library.

References

Dean Hanley and Allyson Hamlin. (12 April 2011). "Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards". Dean's Cards.
(November 16, 2010). "Honus Wagner W600 Cabinet Baseball Card". Dean's Cards.
"Case Studies". InfoVance.
(September 10, 1910). "Front page". Sporting Life.
(February 13, 1926). "Obituary of Francis C. Richter". Philadelphia Inquirer.
Amber Shaw. (2003). "The Impact of Francis Richter on the Development of Baseball". The University of Georgia's Journal for Undergraduate Research Opportunities.
Bill Burgess. (June 25, 2009). "The Sporting Life". Baseball-Fever.com.
Harold Seymour. (1960). "Baseball: The Early Years".
Lori Amber Roessner. (2009). "Hero Crafting in ''Sporting Life'', an Early Baseball Journal". American Journalism.
Andrew Schiff. (2008). "Henry Chadwick (SABR Baseball Biography Project)". Society for American Baseball Research.
(May 13, 2008). "LA84 Foundation Announces Digital Recreation of "The Sporting Life"". LA84 Foundation.

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