Alonzo Joseph "Joe" Flanner
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Joe Flanner's influence as a sportswriter, league official, and architect of the legal and business structure of Major League Baseball continues to influence the sport today. In 1892, after fifteen years, Flanner left the Black Hills, became a sports editor for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and then jumped to St. Louis-based The Sporting News. Flanner was one of three

Joe Flanner's influence as a sportswriter, league official, and architect of the legal and business structure of Major League Baseball continues to influence the sport today. In 1892, after fifteen years, Flanner left the Black Hills, became a sports editor for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and then jumped to St. Louis-based The Sporting News. Flanner was one of three

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1893-1910

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6604 issues 1886-2012

The Sporting News, was established in 1886 as a weekly U.S. magazine. It became the dominant American publication covering baseball,