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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” — [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
