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WITH THIS ISSUE, BASEBALL DIGEST ENTERS ITS 60th anniversary year, standing alone as the oldest, continuously published baseball magazine in the United States.
The game on the major league level has changed in many ways since our magazine was launched in August, 1942 under the direction of the late Herb Simons, a former Chicago baseball writer.
But, the magazine itself has retained much of its familiar format in providing fans, young and old, with the kind of human interest articles and statistics about the players that have always been the publication's stock in trade.
After Simons' death in 1968, I assumed ownership of Baseball Digest in 1969 and brought in former Chicago Daily News baseball writer John Kuenster as the new editor, and we have traveled the course together ever since.
While the magazine remained basically the same package through subsequent years, several upgrades in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Baseball digest 1942-2002.