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 [...]
1957/07/08 – 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 [...]
1957/09/30 – 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 [...]
1957/10/07 – 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1958/04/07 – 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: [...]
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 [...]
1957/04/29 – Front cover features Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Gene Fullmer – Sugar Ray’s Last Chance
An SI Special: The Great U.S. Pool Boom – A 14 page report covers pool building, living, fashions by Fred R. Smith and Jo Ahearn
April Is for the Young In Heart – Tony Kubek awaits his chance as other [...]
1957/04/22 – Front cover features Wally Moon of the St. Louis Cardinals
An SI Special: The Tex Rickard Story — Part 1 of 3 by Charles Samuels
Hubbub in Boston — Beantown springs to life as the Celtics win the NBA title and the Bruins battle uphill for a Stanley Cup — by Herbert Warren [...]
1957/04/08 – Front cover features Trout Fisherman A. Wells Peck – Preview: The Trout Season, A Nationwide Report
Hang on and Pray – Victory comes to a doubting jockey in the Grand National by Whitney Tower
Ackus Marackus at Ohio – For 20 Year’s Ohio State’s divers have ruled their sport by Coles Phinizy
The Man Who [...]
1957/05/27 – Front cover features Preview of the Indianapolis 500 featuring National Champion Driver Jim Bryan
Speed and Indianapolis by Kenneth Rudeen
In a Paris Wood – The Bois de Boulogne has something for both Parisians and tourists, with photos by Robert Doisneau and story by Horace Sutton
The Wonderful World of Sport
The Ruler Is Restored [...]
1957/05/13 – Front cover features Billy Pierce of the Chicago White Sox
Part 1 of 4: The Lady and the Trout — In the 15th Century, the literature of angling began with a Benedictine nun. An eminent historian, Alfred Duggan, introduces Dame Juliana Berners
The Baby Comes Into His Own – Iron Liege’s Derby: a [...]
1957/05/20 – Front cover features Gussie Busch and Friends at the Bridlespur Horse Show
Tragedy at the Mille Miglia — The death of the Marquis de Portago by William Rospigliosi
A Blunder Is Repaired – Basketball referee John K. Fraser is out by Martin Kane
Spectacle: Boats Unlimited in Detroit with color photographs by David Kitz and [...]
1957/05/06 – Front cover features Kentucky Derby Preview – The Calumet Cavalry vs. Bold Ruler
Preview: The Kentucky Derby –
A Year of Greatness by Whitney Tower
Spectacle: Four pages of Derby Day in Color by Richard Meek
You Should Know about juleps — and bourbon by Ed Zern
The Wonderful World of Sport
The $10,000 Elephant by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1957/06/10 – 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 [...]
1957/06/17 – 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, [...]
1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Golden Gate Exposition Opens with Wild West Wallop
LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
The King of Egypt’s Sister to Marry the Shah of Iran’s Son
Harry Hopkins Boom for President Starts in Native Iowa
Pope Pius [...]
1939/11/13 — Cover photograph featuring Claudette Colbert is by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:U.S. Business Opens Great Barco Oil Fields in Columbia
LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
Japanese Sentry in Hawaii Demands Salute from Americans
Congress Kills Arms Embargo
Germans Picture Attack on Rosyth Naval Base
New York and San Francisco Fairs [...]
1938/10/17 — Cover photograph featuring Carole Lombard is by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:The G.O.P. Puts Its Hope in Fresh New Faces:
Pennsylvania – Breaker Boy – Judge James
Massachussets: Blueblood – Leverett Saltonstall
Indiana: Country Editor – Raymond E. Willis
Ohio: President’s Son – Robert Taft
LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
Picture [...]
1938/04/18 — Cover photograph featuring Paulette Goddard is by Martin Munkacsi
Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The Congress of the U.S. to the President of the U.S.: “No!”
Speaking of Dictators – 2 pages of photos featuring Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin in poses that are similar to poses Roosevelt was photographed in
Business: Steel, Spinach, [...]
1948/05/26 –
Cover cartoon is “Staff of No-Hitters” by Willard Mullin features Bill McCahan, Dick Fowler, and Bullfrog Bill Dietrich
Headline on front cover is “‘Lively Ball’ Laid to Dead-Arm Pitching — Everybody Now Swings for Distance”
“Looping the Loops” feature by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Eddie Joost
“Mack’s Cinderella A’s Cost But $75,000 – 5-and-10 Purchases Look [...]
