I used to get the Sporting News every week. My aunt got me a subscription to it after the subscription to Mad Magazine ran out. She always got me great gifts!!!! She got me my first transistor radio. A pocked sized Panasonic when everyone was still saying that products from Japan were s***. I listened to the Conigliaro beaning on that radio!
Anyway, Sporting News had every box score for every major league game. It was great! I could also follow the ABA and my then favorite player who had jumped from UMASS to The Virginia Squires.