1958/04/07 – Front cover features The Masters at the top of the cover and Trout Report at the bottom
Handicap, My Eye! – Sugar Ray Robinson wins 5th Middleweight title from Carmen Basilio
Spectacle: The Masters
Distaff Diplomats on the Mark – Women athletes of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. prepare for javelin, discus and basketball
Youth on Trial: [...]
1958/03/31 – Front cover features Roy Sievers on Hitting
He Wins Games but Not Friends about Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp
Calamity for the Big Men – Some powerful sports cars fell by the wayside at Sebring as Ferraris roared home
Spectacle: The Florida Derby
Del Webb ’s Little Gerrmander – If a Philadelphia-Kansas City switch is good for [...]
1958/03/24 – Front cover features Carmen Basilio at the left, Fairway Fashions at the top right, L.A. Memorial Coliseum with billboard announcing April 18 Dodgers-Giants game
Big League Ball Goes West
Who called that Bum a Smodger? Patently, it must have been a San Franciscan
The two new major league parks: their dimensions and seating, drawn [...]
1958/03/17 – Front cover features Sal Maglie on Pitching
Silky Wows Them All – At the Santa Anita Derby by Whitney Tower
Maple Leaf Tower! – Canada wins back world hockey title from U.S.S.R. at Oslo
Spectacle: Battle of the Blues – Michigan vs. Yale for collegiate swimming title
Saga of the Mustard Sandwich – The first Negro [...]
1957/12/23 – Special Holiday Issue front cover features Sportsman of the Year Stan Musial at the top left, Bowl Previews at top right, plus other features covered inside on bottom half of cover
The Sporting Year Makes a Colorful Exit
The Sportsman of the Year – Stan Musial – 6-1/2 full pages of coverage including one full-page [...]
1957/12/16 – Front cover features Amy Baird at Mount Hood
Three For the Money – Pro Football’s Wild West show snarled in a triple dead heat by Tex Maule
Horses of the Year – It was a great season, says Whitney Tower
Doom Around the Corner – A report on minor league baseball’s sad plight by Roy [...]
1957/11/18 – Front cover features Oklahoma Football featuring Clendon Thomas in the middle
a + $ + x + f +b = INVINCIBILITY — Tex Maule explains Oklahoma’s fascinating formula for a juggernaut
Meeting at the Summit – Bold Ruler wins the race of his life against two fine champions
Spectacle: They’re Rolling at Riverside – Glamour over [...]
1957/11/04 – Front cover features Bobby Cox of Minnesota – Best College Quarterback
Now in November – At midseason, a reflective look at football’s teams and totals
The Boy Grew Up – The amazing story of Bobby Cox, a problem child turned football hero by Roy Terrell
This Vintage Year – Superb basketball is the promise of a [...]
1957/10/14 – Front cover features Charles Goren at the bridge table
The Braves’ New World – Special Commentator Sal Maglie, Baseball Editor Robert Creamer, and Sports Illustrated’s photographers combine to report how the Milwaukee Braves bounced back twice from Series defeats at the hands of the New York Yankees – 9 pages cover the first 5 [...]
1957/10/07 – Front cover features Ollie Matson of the Chicago Cardinals photographed by John G. Zimmerman
Run for the Money – As the football pros throw down the gauntlet, Tex Maule presents the cast. Also, Scouting Reports, plus five stars in Color by John G. Zimmerman (Rick Casares, Bobby Layne, Norm Van Brocklin, Hugh McElhenny, [...]
1957/09/30 – Front cover features a photo by Hy Peskin to go with the World Series preview inside the issue
The Battle of the Champions – What happened when Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson met at Yankee Stadium
PREVIEW: Yanks vs. Braves (12 pages coverage total, including the 3 in color)
The Season: How and why [...]
1957/09/16 – Front cover features Carmen Basilio
Big News in Contract Bridge – Charles Goren, introduced by W. Somerset Maugham, joins Sports Illustrated’s staff and presents his 10 new commandments of bidding
The Velvet Hand – It is Carmen Basilio’s left, and it should beat Sugar Ray Robinson says Martin Kane
Spectacle: Mudlark in Blighty – Uphill [...]
1957/09/09 – Front cover features Roy McMillan of the Reds
The Last Nail – Robert H. Boyle tells how the Yankees virtually wrapped up another pennant
The Red Shoe Mystery – A Russian jumping shoe brings astonishment to rule makers by Paul O’Neil
Hickory, Dickory … Victory! – A bargain colt, Hickory Smoke, wins the classic Hambletonian by [...]
1957/09/02 – Front cover features Althea Gibson
Faces in the Crowd includes a thumbnail black & white photo of 17-year-old JACK NICKLAUS – Accompanying text reads: Jack Nicklaus, husky 17-year-old homebred, made up two-stroke deficit soon after start of final round but had to hand on grimly in face of determined challenge by John Konsek to [...]
1957/08/12 – Front cover features Champion Hydro Racer Russell Schleeh
He Murders With His Wrists — HANK AARON is killing National League pitchers by Roy Terrell with 5 black & white photos
War Whoop for an Old Breed – The spotted and spectacular Appaloosa horse
A Fighting Fish for the Salton Sea – John O’Reilly reports on [...]
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: [...]
1957/07/29 – Front cover features World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson
They Face the Race – A managerial graph of the fevered National League pennant race
Four of Them Made History — John Lovesey reports from London on track’s greatest mile
Patterson by a KO — A look at the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson fight by Martin Kane
All Regular Guys [...]
1957/07/22 – Front cover features New York Yankees Hank Bauer
Secrets of the Yankees – The story behind baseball’s winningest team by Roy Terrell
$427,100 in two Minutes
Eddie and Dedicate took the Monmouth Handicap by M.R. Werner
Clem won the big one at Arlington by William Leggett
To California’s Round Table the Day’s third fat purse by Melvin [...]
1957/07/15 – Front cover features Animal Moods
Britain’s Big Week
Tennis history is made on Wimbledon’s center court by Joan Bruce
Bobby Locke’s Open by Henry Longhurst
Sunday Times golf writer took it all at Henley by John Lovesey
The Wonderful World of Sport
The Missing Link – An inventive genius of the air turns toward the sea by [...]
1957/07/08 – Front cover features “Battle of the Titans at the All-Star Game” with Stan Musial pictured on the left and Ted Williams at the right
Baseball’s Annual All-Star Game
The spirit of the game in words by Robert Creamer
The spirit of the game in pictures by Henri Cartier-Bresson
A detailed Scouting Report on both All-Star teams
The [...]
1957/07/01 – Front cover features Yachting Flags – The Sailor’s Alphabet
IBC Loses the Fight – Judge Rayn’s decision and what it means by Martin Kane
New Faces and New Figures in Baseball
Cornell Lives Up to Its Notices – A closeup of crew champions by Don Parker
No Charity for Junior – Those Olympians are hanging onto their [...]
1957/06/24 – Front cover features pole vaulter Bob Gutkowski
Fame Calls on Dick Mayer – U.S. Open report by Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind
Henley Forever in text and color photos featuring the Henley Royal Regatta
Part 1 of 5 — The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro and Whitney Tower with drawings by Robert [...]
1957/06/17 – Front cover features Eddie Arcaro illustrated by Robert Riger
Part 1 of 5 — The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro and Whitney Tower with drawings by Robert Riger
Skills of the Baseball Hitter by Robert Creamer and John G. Zimmerman includes full-page color photos of each Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Harvey Kuenn, [...]
1957/06/10 – Front cover features U.S. Open defending champion Cary Middlecoff
Baseball: Gloom Here–Joy There by Roy Terrell about the season at the one-quarter mark
Spectacle: The Queen’s Plate by Horace Sutton and Dan Weiner about Canada’s ‘Kentucky Derby’
Sam Wins a Duel in the Sun by Kenneth Rudeen – Sam Hanks wins the Indianapolis 500
Preview: The [...]
1957/06/03 – Front cover features King of the Bullpen, Clem Labine of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Big Show–Bigger to Come by James Murray about track in Los Angeles
Seattle’s Dramamine Derby — The Swiftshire ocean race in color
Caddie Crisis at Happy Knoll by John P. Marquand
They Call Him Mr. Trouble by Gwilyn Brown about golfer Doug [...]
