First issue release March 17, 1886: Founded in St. Louis by Alfred H. Spink as a weekly U.S. newspaper. By May 1886, the paper proclaimed that it had “the largest circulation of any sporting paper west of Philadelphia.“ In October 1887, just a year and a half later, the publisher boasted that circulation stood at 40,000.
Delivering Sports News During World War I: After the United States entered the First World War in April 1917 by declaring war on Germany, The Sporting News joined with Organized Baseball to present a patriotic front. After the Armistice in November 1918, New York Yankees co-owner Til Huston suggested to Johnson that copies of The Sporting News be shipped to France for American soldiers to read as they embarked for home.
Became the dominant sports publication: In the 1920s, under the tagline “The Nation’s Oldest & Finest Sports Paper”, The Sporting News acquired its unofficial nickname “The Bible of Baseball.”
The birth of a longstanding tradition: In 1936 The Sporting News awarded its first Player of the Year — the oldest, most prestigious award still voted on by MLB players.
Expanding Into Different Media: In 1991, The Sporting News evolved into a weekly magazine. In January 1997, the company introduced its website, www.sportingnews.com - serving as provider for AOL.
One chapter ends and another begins: After 126 years, in December 2012, The Sporting News published its final edition as a print publication and has continued as a digital-only service. ACBJ sold its residual stake in The Sporting News to Perform (later to become DAZN) in 2015.
Forward focused: Benson Taylor is only the 15th Editor-in-Chief of TSN in its almost 140 years of existence and will oversee the global editorial expansion and introduction of new language editions
