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Links to the News
Posted, Dec. 14, 2007
Updated, Dec. 14, 2007


Extensive collections of online resources on select, timely news topics.

More Links to the News QuickLink: A134471

Page One Today / Mitchell Report on Steroids

By David Shedden (more by author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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As I was preparing Poynter's "Page One Today" about the Mitchell Report on steroids, I thought about another Page One sports story that helped define a baseball era: the 1921 Black Sox trial.
 
What must have it been like to pick up a newspaper the morning of August 4, 1921 and read Page One headlines saying that baseball leaders won't let "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other White Sox players return to baseball.

Page One Readers of The New York Times read the following statement from Major League Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis:

"Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player that throws a ball game; no player that undertakes or promises to throw a ball game; no player that sits in a conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing games are planned and discussed and does not promply tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball."

It was a story that changed 1920s baseball.

Like newspaper readers 86 years before us, perhaps we are seeing a Page One story that may change the game again.

The newspapers posted below show the many ways journalists are presenting this story. Whether they are using large headlines or small, single photographs or more than eighty, these papers represent what Philip Graham once called, "the first draft of history."

Here are a few of today's Page One examples.



<i>Newsday</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Daily News</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The New York Times</i>, December 14, 2007
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December 14, 2007

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<i>New York Post</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Rocky Mountain News</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Chicago Tribune</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Detroit Free Press</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Star Tribune</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Pioneer Press</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Columbus Dispatch</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Los Angles Times</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>San Jose Mercury News</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Houston Chronicle</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Dallas Morning News</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>St. Petersburg Times</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Tampa Tribune</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Miami Herald</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Seattle Times</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Toronto Sun</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Arizona Republic</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The San Diego Union-Tribune</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Denver Post</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>USA Today</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Sun</i>, December 14, 2007
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<i>The Washington Post</i>, December 14, 2007
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