1946/09/25 –
Cover cartoon is “Take Your Choice” by Willard Mullin featuring Ted Williams and Stan Musial
Headline on front cover is “Television Clause Snags Player Contract – Clubs Value New Service Over Radio
Lippy’s Shift to Yanks Depends on Larry’s Offer – Five-Year $65,000 Pact Figured as Possible Lure — All Other Candidates Far in Background Until [...]
1948/05/12 –
Cover cartoon is “Wising Up the Lip” by Willard Mullin featuring Leo Durocher and Mullin’s Brooklyn Bum
Headline on front cover is “‘Beat Bums’ Slogan Hits Tribe in Teeth – Lou’s Crew Hits Slump After Crack
Article on Stan Musial raising his average from .174 the first 12 games to .373
“Pittsburgh All Smoked Up Over Meyer [...]
1948/05/05 –
Cover cartoon is “Bob the Bottler in Corking Start” by Willard Mullin featuring Mullin’s Indian putting a cork labeled “Bob Feller” into a bottle containing “Enemy Power”
Headline on front cover is “‘Beat Brains Out of Bums! — Boudreau — Tribe Plans to Fatten on Weak Clubs with small head shot photo of Lou Boudreau
Article [...]
1948/06/09 –
Cover cartoon is “The Old Settler Steps Out” by Willard Mullin and featuring Connie Mack
Headline on front cover is “Circuit -Breaker on Video Demanded – Minor Plea to Be Heard July 11-12
“Looping the Loops” column by J.G. Taylor Spink focuses on Gene Bearden
New Raps on Door of 50-Homer Club – War-Ravaged Pitching Still Taking [...]
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 [...]
1957/11/04 – 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 [...]
1957/12/16 – 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 [...]
1957/09/09 – 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 [...]
1957/09/16 – 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 [...]
1957/09/02 – 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 [...]
1957/08/05 – 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: [...]
1957/08/12 – 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 [...]
1957/07/22 – 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 [...]
1957/07/29 – 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 [...]
1957/07/01 – 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 [...]
1966/09 — Vol. 13 No. 9. 286 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Timothy Leary
“Buddy-Buddy” — Fiction by Garson Kanin
Jocelyn Lane — Heiress Apparent — Pictorial
“Rendezvous” — Fiction by John Christopher
It’s Superspa! — Reportage by Herbert Gold
“The Gold of Troy” — Fiction [...]
1966/01 — Vol. 13 No. 1. 262 pages.
Holiday Anniversary Issue
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Princess Grace Kelly
The Wisdom of W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
“The Last Act” — Fiction by Roald Dahl
Those Gilded Galas — Nostalgia by Lucius [...]
1966/04 — Vol. 13 No. 4. 224 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: George Lincoln Rockwell
“Chronicle of an Event” — Fiction by Ken W. Purdy
Playboy’s Spring and Summer Fashion Forecast — Attire by Robert L. Green
“Octopussy” – Part 2 of 2 of [...]
1966/03 — Vol. 13 No. 3. 176 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Bob Dylan
The Playboy Panel – Crisis in Law Enforcement — Discussion
“Octopussy” – Part 1 of 2 of a Novelette by Ian Fleming
The Contemporary Planesman — Modern Living
“O’Hara’s Love” — [...]
1966/07 — Vol. 13 No. 7. 170 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Ralph Ginzburg
One the Secret Service of HIs Majesty the Queen — Parody by Sol Weinstein
The Bespoke Ford — Modern Living
“The Better Man” — Fiction by Ray Russell
Slices of [...]
1966/10 — Vol. 13 No. 10. 228 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Mel Brooks
“The Man in the Rorschach Shirt” — Fiction by Ray Bradbury
Ann-Margret as Art — Pictorial
“A Woman for Titus” — Fiction by Hugh Nissenson
Wiped Out! — Article by An [...]
1966/02 — Vol. 13 No. 2. 192 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
Playboy Interview: Federico Fellini
“How Simon Got His Bureau” — Part 3 of a Novel by Bernard Wolfe
European Fashion Dateline — Attire by Robert L. Green
“A Valentine” — Fiction by William Saroyan
Jazz [...]
1966/05 — Vol. 13 No. 5. 230 pages.
Contents include:
Playbill
Dear Playboy
Playboy After Hours
The Playboy Advisor
Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
The Playboy Forum
The Playboy Philosophy – Editorial by Hugh Hefner
Playboy Interview: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
“The Roach Powder in the Maple Walnut” – Fiction by Bernard Wolfe
Brava Costas! — Travel by Geoffrey Bocca
“The Master Copy” [...]
1919/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare
Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:
Frontispiece: “Who’s Who in America” illustrated by Norman Price
Your Rent by Abram I. Elkus
“Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!” by Irvin S. Cobb
“Isn’t That Just Like a Man!” by Mary Roberts Rinehart
A Wonderful Dog With [...]
