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.
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Newsday, December 14, 2007
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NewsdayDecember 14, 2007
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Daily News, December 14, 2007
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Daily NewsDecember 14, 2007
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The New York Times, December 14, 2007
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The New York TimesDecember 14, 2007
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New York Post, December 14, 2007
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New York PostDecember 14, 2007
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San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2007
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San Francisco ChronicleDecember 14, 2007
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Rocky Mountain News, December 14, 2007
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Rocky Mountain NewsDecember 14, 2007
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Chicago Tribune, December 14, 2007
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Chicago TribuneDecember 14, 2007
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Detroit Free Press, December 14, 2007
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Detroit Free PressDecember 14, 2007
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Star Tribune, December 14, 2007
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
December 14, 2007
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Pioneer Press, December 14, 2007
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Pioneer Press (St. Paul)
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 14, 2007
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Milwaukee Journal SentinelDecember 14, 2007
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The Columbus Dispatch, December 14, 2007
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The Columbus DispatchDecember 14, 2007
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 14, 2007
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St. Louis Post-DispatchDecember 14, 2007
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Los Angles Times, December 14, 2007
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Los Angeles TimesDecember 14, 2007
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San Jose Mercury News, December 14, 2007
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San Jose Mercury NewsDecember 14, 2007
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Houston Chronicle, December 14, 2007
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Houston ChronicleDecember 14, 2007
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The Dallas Morning News, December 14, 2007
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The Dallas Morning NewsDecember 14, 2007
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St. Petersburg Times, December 14, 2007
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St. Petersburg TimesDecember 14, 2007
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The Tampa Tribune, December 14, 2007
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The Tampa TribuneDecember 14, 2007
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The Miami Herald, December 14, 2007
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The Miami HeraldDecember 14, 2007
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The Seattle Times, December 14, 2007
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The Seattle TimesDecember 14, 2007
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Toronto Sun, December 14, 2007
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Toronto SunDecember 14, 2007
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The Arizona Republic, December 14, 2007
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The Arizona RepublicDecember 14, 2007
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The San Diego Union-Tribune, December 14, 2007
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The San Diego Union-TribuneDecember 14, 2007
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The Denver Post, December 14, 2007
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The Denver PostDecember 14, 2007
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 14, 2007
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The Philadelphia InquirerDecember 14, 2007
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 14, 2007
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Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewDecember 14, 2007
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USA Today, December 14, 2007
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USA TodayDecember 14, 2007
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The Sun, December 14, 2007
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The Sun (Baltimore)
December 14, 2007
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The Washington Post, December 14, 2007
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The Washington PostDecember 14, 2007
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