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 Wind and Jeremiah Tax
Hope of St. Louis – The Cardinals are long shots this year, but a quiet Gashouser named Moon could spark them to the pennant by Robert Creamer
A Wilderness Explodes – The beauty of a Great Smokies springtime with color photos by Richard Meek, by John O’Reilly and Horace Sutton