1957/08/05 - Front cover features Bonnie Prudden

  • Floyd Patterson vs. Hurricane Jackson - A ringside report on the heavyweight championship fight by Martin Kane
  • Wondrous Willie - Richard Meek captures in color the base-running skill of WILLIE MAYS - 4 pages in color
  • That Pennant - Five players, mightily involved themselves, discuss the National league race

    • U.S. Fitness, 1957: A 24-Page Report

  • A survey of fitness progress--and problems by Dorothy Stull

  • Reports from the 48 States by Sports Illustrated correspondents
  • Bonnie Prudden begins a unique series on fitness for the family
  • The skintight Sporting Look in exercise clothes
  • Look, ma! I'm flying: fitness in Michigan
  • Long Run to Honolulu - Ezra Bowen's nautical diary of the 2,230-mile to Diamond Head
  • 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 at Larchmont - Tommy Munnell and his sister Cathie win seven in a row
  • The PGA Comes Back - An old tourney is exhibiting renewed vigor by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Swoon's Son - A courageous horse in Chicago, haven of comfort by Whitney Tower
  • A Museum for a Queen - The National turf collection, at Saratoga, photographed in Color

  • Case History of a Baseball Player - A "psychoanalyst" interprets the National Game by Howard L. Katzander
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features