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Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall
I've been looking through my 1978 Sporting News issues for that year's listing of non-roster invitees, but without luck.
I'll continue to investigate, but if anyone knows which issue they're contained in, it would be very helpful.
Thanks!
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Here's what Merkle said originally:
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There are plenty of records from the '60s/'70s - they are just woefully inconsistent and incomplete.
From about 1960 through around 1968, The Sporting News did an annual round-up of them, usually in a February or early March issue - but one team or more would always read "To be determined after early camp."
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Now, if TSN did an annual round up from "1960 through around 1968", the implication would be that they didn't necessarily do it every year thereafter. So maybe, they didn't do it in '78. Just sayin'. If they did, it would likely have appeared in February or early March. I recall TSN doing something like this in the early 70s but, by '78, I was working at my earliest jobs and following sports religiously had taken a back seat to trying to pay the bills on minimum wage gigs.