What Magazine do you miss the most?

[mpcincal]

I was a particular fan of the Team Notes. A's Acorns, Gi-Antics, can't remember the names of some of the others. Halo Happenings? Tiger-Tales?

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

 

[justgladtobehere]

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

 

[utilityman]

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

 

[utilityman]

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

 

[Slacker]

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

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

 

[jr/shotglass]

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."

 

[Azrael]

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.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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 clash, 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 clash, 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.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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.

 

[britwrit]

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.)

 

[maumann]

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.

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 clashifieds 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.

 

[The Big Ragu]

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.

There was a time in my life where I loved everything about print magazines. Some thought it was in an unhealthy way. In the late 1980s, 1990s, early 2000s, I'd spend hours of my life parked in various newsstands -- there was a Hudson News on Broadway near Astor Place that was a little bigger than the others and had magazines you wouldn't see anywhere else, and I could combine it with a short walk over to the B&N.

It wasn't just the editorial, or to read stories without buying, I actually bought a ton of magazines, still have boxes and boxes of favorites. I loved everything about magazines. I learned about the newsstand game, direct mail for subscriptons, how it all related to their audits and how those worked, and how that all related to advertising. I helped start two magazines, one in Chicago, one in NY (both long stories, but both that lasted for quite a while, and broke even, but financially ended up being supported in ways I never thought either would).

So I love magazines too. Except what I loved doesn't really exist anymore. Which was why I largely moved on. For my sanity, because I saw the handwriting on the wall fairly early and I try to be adaptable, and because I decided I liked earning money, building security, not just clinging to a pashion that wasn't acting as pashionately about me.

Just to give an idea about how nutso I was about loving magazines. In my early to late 20s, I lived in Chicago for close to 5 years (went to grad school there, started my disjointed career there). I loved magazines so much, just everything about it, that I became good at getting comped to magazines. On top of it, I figured out how to get myself qualified for all kinds of trade magazines that they would send for free to people in the related discipline or industry. They'd send a questionaire to qualify you and I was pretty good at answering the questions right. And every day, my mailbox would be filled with 20 magazines, which I'd pour over trying to evaluate how good they were, if they had the right voice for their audience (as I guessed their audience, at least), looking at their ads, comparing it to whatever media kits I could get my hands on and their rate cards (and guesses about how they had to negotiate rates), and trying to figure out how financially successful they might be. At one point, I had 3 different magazines for pig farmers coming to me. My friends thought I was nuts.