Baseball Magazine

[1] The magazine was founded by Boston sportswriter Jake Morse prior to the 1908 season.

[4] The magazine also strove to provide human interest stories about baseball stars, such as Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson.

[4] Morse had previously devoted issues to Cy Young in 1908, shortly after baseball commemorated Cy Young Day, and to Addie Joss in 1911, shortly after Joss' death.

[4] Despite the magazine's reverence for Young and Mathewson, in 1909 Morse wrote an article in Baseball Magazine proclaiming former Providence Grays pitcher Charles Radbourn to be "the greatest pitcher who ever lived.

[3] During the 1920s the magazine complained about players being paid to act as baseball writers.