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1957-06-03 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents June 3 1957

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 Ford
  • Of Cups and Courage by Alice Higgins about steeplechase
  • Busy, Busy Jumbo by Coles Phinizy about Coach Jim Jumbo Elliott and his Villanova track team
  • Darlin’ Clem Labine by Robert Creamer
  • Cus D’Amato Outpoints the IBC by Martin Kane
  • Part 4 of 4 — The Lady and the Trout by John McDonald about Dame Juliana Berners
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features

    • 1956-10-17 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents October 17 1956

    1956/10/17 —

  • Cover cartoon is “They’re Making a Pitch for Your Vote” by Lou Darvas featuring Cy Young Award candidates Whitey Ford, Warren Spahn, Frank Lary, Sal Maglie, Herb Score, Bob Friend, Billy Pierce, and Don Newcombe
  • Headline of Issue is “A.L. Places Seven on ’56 All Star Team — Mantle Paces Voting, Three Yanks Named”
  • “Larsen Top Hero of All World’s Series – No-Windup Delivery Helps Don Achieve Perfect Game” with photo in center of page of Don Larsen towelling off his face after completing his World Series Perfect Game — 2 full pages of coverage here
  • Following Page: “Larsen Proved Ernie Was False Prophet – ‘No More Perfect Games,’ Shore Predicted” in article featuring Ernie Shore, the Red Sox pitcher who came in after Babe Ruth walked the first batter of a 1917 game and was ejected, Shore was perfect from that point onward
  • “Larsen Faced Tensest Situations, Stongest Array of Hitters — Majors 7th Perfect Game Finest of All” with photos across the top of John Montgomery Ward, Cy young, Addie Joss, Ernie Shore, and Charlie Robertson with box scores of the other 6 perfect games
  • Series Runs Scale–Blues to Brilliance — Sloppy Start Followed by Spectacular Individual Feats includes a small photo of Yogi Berra’s father
  • “Chips Down Hurling Won for Yanks–Daniel / Newk’s Flop, Hit Fadeout, Beat Dodgers–King
  • Game by Game Coverage of 1956 WORLD SERIES New York Yankees Defeat Brooklyn Dodgers in 7 games — A page per game including article, box score, photos, sidebars including GAME 5 DON LARSEN PERFECT GAME
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page “Quarterback” section covering football

    • 36 pages plus 8-page “The Quarterback” section for 44 pages total.

    1956-10-10 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents October 10 1956

    1956/10/10 —

  • Cover cartoon features Mickey Mantle – Hank Aaron – Billy Pierce – Don Newcombe as the best performers of 1956, illustrated by Lou Darvas. Accompanying headline is “Mantle and Aaron Top Players of Year – Newcombe, Pierce Gain Hill Honors”
  • Page 2 article: “Triple Crown, Not Babe’s Record, Worried Mantle – Last Week Nerve-Wracking to Mickey”
  • Full page featuring large photo of Sandy Amoros smoking victory cigar with headline: “Amoros Shakes Goat Role with Homers in Pennant-Clincher — Everything’s Looking Sunny Now for Sandy”
  • Looping the Loops column by J.G. Taylor Spink features Bobby Bragan
  • “Reds Knot Record, Go Down Swinging in Bid for New High” with Bob Bentovoua cartoon of 6 Reds sluggers including Frank Robinson, Wally Post and Ted Kluszewski
  • “Bums Puffed to Pennant on Uphill Trail” featuring team photo 1956 NL pennant winning Brooklyn Dodgers
  • A page covering the Milwaukee Braves who the Dodgers beat for the pennant, includes photo of Warren Spahn
  • Full page including two large photos feature on cartoonist Willard Mullin — “Word Picture of Artist-Creator of Brooklyn “Bum” – Mullin Began Drawing in School Books”
  • Nice full page “We Did It Again!!!” Brooklyn Dodgers ad featuring team photo plus bullet points highlighting the Dodgers regular season
  • Final batting averages for each league on facing pages with small photos of league leaders Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron
  • Small article about Kraft Theater’s airing of “The Mickey Mantle Story” on the evening of World Series Game 1
  • Coverage of the Junior World Series featuring the Indianapolis Indians defeat of the Rochester Red Wings includes small head shot photos of heroes Joe Altobelli and Roger Maris
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page “Quarterback” section covering football – Includes features on Lions – Nittany Lions – Jimmy Theodore – Claude Benham –

    • 36 pages plus 8-page “The Quarterback” section for 44 pages total.