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 [...]
1957/10/14 – 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 [...]
1957/09/16 – 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 [...]
1957/09/09 – 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 [...]
1957/11/18 – 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 [...]
1957/12/16 – 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 [...]
1957/07/22 – 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 [...]
1957/08/12 – 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 [...]
1957/08/05 – 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 [...]
1957/09/02 – 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 [...]
1957/07/01 – 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1957/12/23 – 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
1958/03/31 – 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 [...]
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 [...]
1957/06/24 – 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 [...]
1957/06/03 – 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 [...]
1957/05/06 – 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 [...]
1957/05/20 – 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 [...]
