Did you know you can read every Baseball Digest issue online? Yeah, me neither!
Actually, I’d never even heard of the magazine, but apparently it’s “the oldest and only
MLB magazine in the country” per their own description.
Anyway, now you can view their entire back issue content thanks to Google Books. Sixty four Google pages of magazines, going all the way back to the first issue, published in July 1945, are viewable, cover-to-cover, every page. Crazy, eh?
Their site is still asking for subscription money, so I’m not sure how often the online content will get updated, but it goes as recent as October of last year, so by the time you catch up on all that, the new issues won’t be new anymore and will hopefully be offered up on Google as well.
What’s really cool is you can easily search the content of each issue, and if you get really clever, you can use Google Books advanced search to search the entire magazine’s run for whatever keyword you want. Say uh… just randomly… Willie Mays perhaps? Click on the result and it even shows the exact page that talks about your search words. Crazy, eh?
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