Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

349 c   (SPORTS.) Robinson, Jackie; editor. Complete run of the magazine Our Sports. 5 issues with original pictorial wrappers, each 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches; condition generally strong; most signed by an early owner on the front cover. New York, May-October [1953] [600/900] 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). Featured on the covers were 4 baseball players (Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, Satchel Paige, and Minnie Minoso), 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.