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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
