What Magazine do you miss the most?

When I was reading it, I seem to remember it as Angel Angles.

 

I liked the section with letters asking about rules or scoring in various sports.

 

Pitt-burghers, Red Hots and Redbird Chirps were among my favorite TSN baseball notebooks.

 

And ...Sox Yarns. I can't remember which Sox team that was for.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Lebovitz

He was famous for his great knowledge of sports rules and wrote a popular newspaper column, "Ask Hal the Referee," which ran in both The Plain Dealer and The Sporting News, in which he answered intricate questions about sports rules.

Hal Lebovitz | Ask Hal | Sports Writer

 

Magazines are pretty much a non-entity with me anymore. I can't even remember the last time I considered a subscription.

I did love MAD as a kid. Lived for the monthly magazine, gobbled up the softcovers when they came out.

The old version of Baseball Digest was a regular. So was Sporting News, which I consider more a magazine than a "newspaper."

 

Taking a brief break from fomenting WW III to say I still love magazines.

Still subscribe to a bunch of them, big and small. Still get through them, cover to cover, not long after they arrive. Still carry one rolled up in my back pocket when I'm out walking.

Love magazines.

 

I miss The Sporting News too. In elementary school, we had this sub teacher named Mr. Belinda. I think he had been a principal before retiring. Coolest sub ever. When he was in your class, you looked forward to the day because he was a lot of fun.

One thing he used to do was do some trivia questions related to the subjects being taught, with the first kid getting the right answer winning a prize. In fourth grade, right before gym class, he asked a sports question which I got right. My prize was a copy of The Sporting News.

I may not be able to tell you what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I still remember winning that copy.

 

As far as other mags that I miss, journalism-wise, I miss Editor and Publisher and American Journalism Review. E and P was helpful for a college grad trying to find his first job, and AJR was helpful in learning about the journalism world.

My bosses at my first two papers had an AJR subscription, and when they were done reading them, they left the copies for anyone who wanted them to take home. I always took a copy home.

 

Spy, yes, but a whole host of New York mags. The print version of The New York Observer. The Village Voice, when it you paid for it every week. The New York Press, bringing up the rear.

NYC seems like a whole lot less interesting place without them.

(And, just to nitpick, I have to add as a subscriber that Time is still around as a bi-weekly publication. Sort of a shell but still gamely plugging in there.)

 

Radio & Records, like E&P, was a must-read when I was in the industry, because not only did it offer great tips for moving up, the music charts for various formats and interviews with radio bigwigs, but the help needed section in the classifieds was better than blind-boxing stations and getting rejection letters.

I landed at least two jobs through R&R, both cross-country where I'd have never had a chance otherwise.