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1957-10-14 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for October 14, 1957

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 games of the 1957 World Series leaving it with tghe Braves up 3 games to 2 over the Yankees in a series that would go 7 with the Braves emerging as World Champions
  • Football: Third Week – Despite World Series distractions, the fans still had some frenzied moments
  • Comfort and Color – Roosevelt Raceway’s spectacular new harness track is described by Jeremiah Tax
  • The Subway Alumnus Rides Again – The Army-Notre Dame rivalry is renewed after a nine-year lapse. A preview by Tex Maule. Also the Oklahoma-Texas football weekend in Dallas in color
  • Hot and Cold Tips for Tail Gate Picnics – How to meet the challenge of the pre-football lunch by Charlotte Adams
  • Six Wondrous Days in a Cave – The awesome story of the conquest of the Berger Chasm by Jean Cadoux
  • Governor Joe Foss Campaigns for Antelope – Coles Phinizy accompanies the Marine hereo on a bow-and-arrow hunt
  • How Good Are You? – Bridge is fun, says Charles Goren, whatever your rating may be
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    • 1957-11-04 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for November 4, 1957

    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 new pro season – Scouting reports and ratings of all eight NBA teams by Jeremiah Tax
  • A Boat for a Bride – Designer Bill Goarden dreamed up the Oceanus to ge this new wife to sea. By Mort Lund
  • What’s in a Name? – For once, the great pacer Torpid lived up to his incongruous name by Jeremiah Tax
  • Sporting Look at Europe’s Sweaters — …and the girls who wear them
  • A Well-Armed Girl in the Wilds – Virginia Kraft visits Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness and bags a bear
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    • 1957-12-16 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for December 16, 1957

    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 Terrell
  • Ch. Siefenjagenheim Lazy Bones – The king of basset hounds sites for a Color Portrait by Jerry Cooke
  • Wiley Wins Again – Alice Higgins reports the rousing horse show climax at Toronto
  • Black Sand and Red Roses – Horace Sutton offers a new vacation ideal: the Canary Islands in Color
  • America’s Ski Clothes – Now you can get the latest and best here at home
  • Revolution in Skiing — Part 2 — Continuing his course in the new shortswing technique by Willy Schaeffeler; get you out in the snow to learn basic turns – Illustrated by Robert Riger
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    • 1957-11-18 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for November 18, 1957

    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 and under the hood captured in pictures and text
  • 10 Secrets of Bowling – They are told by World Champion Don Carter and illustrated by Anthony Ravielli in an article that will revolutionize your game
  • On the Bowl’s Rim – With Football’s Eighth Week, the New Year’s Day rivals are falling into place
  • After You, Alphonse – “Raton” lost the bantam title to Monsieur Halimi by Martin Kane
  • The Outboard Outburst – The big news in engines and boats, including the latest wonder: an outboard diesel
  • The Beagle Call – … is a sound of fall, Jerry Cooke shows a fine old country sport in color
  • Dan Hodge – Boxer – America’s best wrestler switches sports by Don Granger
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    • 1957-09-09 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 9, 1957

    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 Jeremiah Tax
  • America’s Cup – The Old Mug Again – After a summer of confusion, a famed race is revived by Mort Lund
  • Spectacle: Hot Derby for Outboards – Foreign rigs add spice to this year’s championships
  • Preview: Back to the Country Club – The Amateur Golf championship returns to Brookline. A chart of the course by Jack Kunz and a recounting of Francis Ouimet ‘s 1913 Open by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Physical Fitness Comes to the Point – The President’s Committee meets in a likely spot by Dorothy Stull
  • Wreck of the Redlegs – Horrible pitching scuttled Cincinnati’s pennant hopes says Robert Creamer
  • Part 1: God’s Little Underwater Acre – Clare Booth Luce discovers a strange and brilliant new world
  • What to Wear on Wheels – A Sporting Look at sunny Rome’s latest in motor scooter costumes
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course — Ending the first phase of the series, she presents the Side Stretch
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    • 1957-09-16 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 16, 1957

    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 and Down with England’s hardy trials drivers
  • A Champion Is On the Way – Whitney Tower scouts tomorrow’s racing heroes, today’s 2-year olds
  • National Singles Champions, 1957 – Althea Gibson accommodated history–Malcolm Anderson made it
  • End of an Area — The Dodgers may be dead now, but “wait till next year” by Dick Young
  • One Man’s Arsenal – On the Eve of Hunting Season Ed Zern picks 10 best guns
  • Part 2: God’s Little Underwater Acre – Clare Booth Luce concludes her odyssey of discovery in a colorful new world
  • Pour Le Sport – A fashion scoop from Paris; boutique clothes with a Sporting Look
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course – Part 7 presents Exercises for College Students
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    • 1957-09-02 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for September 2, 1957

    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 win (294-296) international jaycee junior golf title at Columbus -Can’t stress enough how small this is, photo plus text area measure total of 2-1/2 X 1-1/2 inches
  • The Veep: He Swung and He Missed – Pete Rademacher loses his bout but makes his point by Martin Kane
  • Spectacle: The River – A St. Lawrence way of life photographed by Toni Frissell

  • Preview: Forest Hills — Sarah Palfrey presents an intimate portrait of Althea Gibson including full-page color photo of Gibson, a frequently ‘misunderstood’ you lady; William F. Talbert previews the 1957 Nationals; and Horace Sutton conducts a tour of Forest Hills
  • Sporting Look: College ’57 – The University of Missouri models the latest clothes
  • Remember the Old Canoe? — Photographer Wallace Kirkland takes you on a nostalgic trip in color, and Sparse Grey hackle fondly recalls the canoes he has known
  • The Edsel Arrives – Debut of a powerful, glittering new Ford Motor Co. car by Kenneth Rudeen
  • Blue Heaven – In the Hawaiian Islands Ezra Bowen discovers a marlin paradise
  • San Francisco 1, Los Angeles 0 – Major league baseball finally reaches the coast–and not at L.A.
  • Deep in the Bush – Life in Class D baseball is photographed by John G. Zimmerman as Robert H. Boyle finds old Dodger Pete Reiser managing Kokomo
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course – Part 5 presents the Hip Shift and Deep Knee Bend
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    • 1957-08-05 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for August 5, 1957

    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: A 24-Page Report

  • A survey of fitness progress–and problems by Dorothy Stull

  • Reports from the 48 States by Sports Illustrated correspondents
  • Bonnie Prudden begins a unique series on fitness for the family
  • The skintight Sporting Look in exercise clothes
  • Look, ma! I’m flying: fitness in Michigan
  • Long Run to Honolulu – Ezra Bowen’s nautical diary of the 2,230-mile to Diamond Head
  • 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 at Larchmont – Tommy Munnell and his sister Cathie win seven in a row
  • The PGA Comes Back – An old tourney is exhibiting renewed vigor by Herbert Warren Wind
  • Swoon’s Son – A courageous horse in Chicago, haven of comfort by Whitney Tower
  • A Museum for a Queen – The National turf collection, at Saratoga, photographed in Color

  • Case History of a Baseball Player – A “psychoanalyst” interprets the National Game by Howard L. Katzander
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    • 1957-08-12 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for August 12, 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 a new angler’s paradise in California

  • Beauty on the Wing – The rewards of butterfly hunting in four pages of color

  • Preview: Battle for the Gold Cup – In Seattle, the roaring hydroplanes are ready to go by Mort Lund
  • Publinx Prodigy – A very promising youngster wins the public course title by Gwilym Brown
  • You Should Know … What Ed Zern has to say about Scotch whisky and Highland grouse
  • Bonnie Prudden’s Fun & Fitness Course – The Spine-Down Stretch
  • Ready on the Firing Line – Pistols, a National championship and Sergeant Joe Benner by Coles Phinizy
  • Sports Cars for the Kiddies — 2 pages of color
  • Flags in the Front Yard – Paul O’Beil tours Lowell Thomas’ extraordinary private golf course
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    • 1957-07-22 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for July 22, 1957

    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 Durslag
  • Robert Moses and the Dodger Move by Robert Moses
  • Saga of Two Adventurous Honeymooners — In Color, an attractive sporting couple’s exotic, 30,000-mile wedding trip
  • Nothing Could Be Finer — That’s what they sing about Dyna, the Great Lakes’ newest yacht
  • Exit the Crocodile – Rae Johnstone, international jockey, has retired by William McHale
  • Fun in the Sun – A Sporting Look at some of the brightest seaside clothing yet
  • Part 1: Mr. McDonogh’s Magic Shovel – An Irish sequel to Gerald Holland’s Ron Delany story
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    • 1957-07-29 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for July 29, 1957

    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 – They’ll be playing gold in next week’s Public Links by Gwilym Brown
  • The Great in Tennis — Big Pancho Gonzales is still the world’s best player by William F. Talbert
  • The Fabulous Hamptons — Long Island’s poshest playground photographed in color by Toni Frissell with special social portrait by Horace Sutton
  • The Makeshift Marvel — Paul Richards is doing wonders in Baltimore by Les Woodcock
  • Stoneham of the Giants – A portrait of a club owner who must make up his mind
  • The Lavender Mob – Of sports cars and pot hunting in Maryland by Kenneth Rudeen
  • Part 2: Mr. McDonogh’s Magic Shovel — Gerald Holland completes some welcome spadework for Irish athletics
  • Golden Look for Tennis Clothes – Court fashions adopt the graceful traditions of a splendid past
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    • 1957-07-01 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents for July 1, 1957

    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 laurels by Coles Phinizy
  • Something for the Sailors – Yachting’s heraldry–its signal flags and burgees
  • St. Andrews – Magic and Mystery – The famous course in Color pictures and text by S.L. McKinlay
  • Jewels for a Trout – A scientist photographs in color the startling world of fish food
  • Al Lopez – Good Days and Bad by Robert Creamer
  • Part 3: The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro
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    • 1957-10-07 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents October 7 1957

    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, Frank Gifford)
  • Big Time at $5 a Share – Opening of the East’s newest track at Bridgehampton by Kenneth Rudeen
  • The Dedicated Willie – The Woodward Stakes and Willie Hartack by Whitney Tower
  • The Collegians Under Full Steam – College Football
  • A Family Affair at the Polo Grounds – An old fan of the New York Giants, Arnold Hano, pays his last respects
  • Kentucky’s Kingmaking Horse Show by Alice Higgins
  • The Pheasant and the Commissar – U.S. Ambassador Ellis O. Briggs recalls the eerie doings of a diplomatic shoot, Czech style
  • Ghost Towns in a Summer Album – John Chapman, drama critic, discovers some unusual stage sets in Colorado
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    • 1957-12-23 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents December 23 1957

    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 one full-page color photo of Stan the Man
  • A Special Bowl Day Football Package runs from pages 36-53
  • New Bridge Quiz by Charles Goren
  • Best in Show – A Christmas fable for dog lovers and everybody by Fred Gwynne
  • Flip-Top Zoo – A brand new cutout pastime for young and old – designed by Jerome Kuhl
  • The Silver Anniversary All-America by John Tibby – 25 football players of 25 years ago who’ve earned election to the Silver All-America
  • A Rare Bird — And a Groaning Board – The wild turkey
  • Revolution in Skiing — Part 3 by Willy Schaeffler and Robert Riger
  • Powder Snow in Oberland by Toni Frissell and Robert Wernick
  • The World of Singing Skies – A literary testament from a great sportsman-author — Lord Dunsany
  • Bothwell’s Banshees – A Californian’s collection of vintage racing cars – 2 pages in color
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    • 1957-07-08 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents July 8 1957

    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 both All-Star teams
  • The history of Busch Stadium in a drawing by Joe Kaufman
  • A guide to St. Louis by the Footloose Sportsman, Horace Sutton

  • The Campbell is Coming – The world’s fastest boat driver prepares for a new record by Mort Lund
  • A Joy of Donkeys – An old jackass fan, John O’ Reilly, contemplates his favorite animal
  • Part 4: The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro
  • New Hope for Hopefuls – A gallery of young tennis stars in color. By William F. Talbert
  • A Boycott that Backfired – Speed and supremacy fall to America at Monza by William Rospigliosi
  • The Tragic Fourth – It was Jackie Pung’s downfall by Herbert Warren Wind
  • The Champs of 1960 – They were playing in the NCAA golf tournament by James Murray
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    • 1957-09-30 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents September 30 1957

    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 and why the winners won, plus three pages of Color including full page shot of Fred Haney
  • The Stadiums: Drawings of the Parks, their histories and seating data
  • Scouting Reports: A player-by-player evaluation of the Braves and Yankees
  • Critique–and Verdict: An assessment of the two teams
  • Football Surprises and Promises by Tex Maule
  • Golf’s Amateur Heroes by Herbert Warren Wind

    • ,lI>Johnny’s Gamble – An ailing colt wins the Little Brown Jug by Jeremiah Tax

  • New Sporting Look at Old Dublin – The lovely women of Ireland show classic fabrics in modern dress
  • Three Days on a Horse – Alice Higgins reports on the Wofford Cup
  • The Beauty of a Sporting Heritage – The magnificent estate of J. Watson Webbs, in color by Richard Meek
  • Herr “Beautiful Service” – About Red Schoendienst by Gerald Holland
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    • 1958-03-17 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents March 17 1958

    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 – The first Negro All-America basketball choice reaches some conclusions about his race and the game – George Gregory
  • Infinite Roles of Woman
  • The America’s Cup Race Is On
  • Big League Secrets: Part 1 – Veteran pitcher Sal Maglie discusses the fine art of pitching in the major leagues
  • Lunar Golf Course – Photographed in color, a Florida golf hole is cratered with sand traps it is moonlike
  • Say Hello to Jimmy Jones
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    • 1958-03-31 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents March 31 1958

    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 good for the Yankees, well, it will be good for the Yankees
  • Fashionable Ways of Greeting Spring
  • The European Car Invasion
  • Big League Secrets: Part 2 – Roy Sievers, home run champion, points out the things a big league batter has to know – As told to Robert Creamer
  • Ordeal of the Wood Ibis by John O’Reilly with photographs by David Goodnow
  • The Road to Augusta
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    • 1958-03-24 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents March 24 1958

    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, drawn in color
  • The Giants and Dodgers in spring training: reports from Phoenix and Vero Beach
  • Footloose in two cities: a sprightly guide to San Francisco and Los Angeles
  • O’Malley and the Angels: a man’s struggle with a sport and a business
  • Spectacle: Sugar Ray Dares the Odds – Carmen Basilio is favored over Sugar Ray Robinson, includes four full pages in color
  • The Plot Against Silky Sullivan
  • Sacks and Chemises at Santa Anita
  • Long Day’s Journey at Sebring – A preview of the top U.S. road race
  • For Women Golfers … a special wardobe designed by Bill Atkinson
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    • 1958-04-07 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents April 7 1958

    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
  • Youth on Trial: The Rookies – Includes Norm Siebern, Albie Pearson, Carleton Willey, Vada Pinson, Ron Hansen, Don Demeter, Willie Kirkland
  • Trout Report: Three Dream Streams covers Penns’ Creek, PA; Armstrong’s Creek, MO; Quinalt River, WA
  • Some Australian Arrivals – Silky Terriers
  • The Willow and the Cherry Tree by Jean Paradise
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    • 1957-07-15 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents July 15 1957

    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 toward the sea by Coles Phinizy
  • Some Faces in the Zoo — You may find your best friend among these animals photographed in color
  • A Herd of Horse Shows by Alice Higgins
  • Mass Hikers in the Sky — Teen-agers and sexagenarians alike take on a Utah peak
  • The Oklahoma Kids Hit Town – Lindy and Von McDaniel have Cardinal fans in a state of frenzy
  • Road America and Some Weekend Heroes – Amateurs come into their own on the Wisconsin track by Kenneth Rudeen
  • Part 5: The Art of Race Riding by Eddie Arcaro
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    • 1957-04-29 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents April 29 1957

    1957/04/29 – Front cover features Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Gene Fullmer – Sugar Ray’s Last Chance

  • An SI Special: The Great U.S. Pool Boom – A 14 page report covers pool building, living, fashions by Fred R. Smith and Jo Ahearn
  • April Is for the Young In Heart – Tony Kubek awaits his chance as other youngsters shine; also opens with a nearly full-page black & white photo of Roger Maris crossing the plate after his first home run
  • Spectacle: The Horse Show That Is Italy’s Pride – It is in Rome, of course, and one of the reasons for its success is the brilliant riding of the D’Inzeo brothers, by Luigi Barzini, Jr.
  • The Wonderful World of Sport
  • It’s Sugar Ray vs Gene Again – Gene Fullmer is favored to keep the middleweight title won from Sugar Ray Robinson by Martin Kane
  • Part 2: The Tex Rickard Story by Charles Samuels
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    • 1957-04-22 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents April 22 1957

    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
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    • 1957-04-08 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents April 8 1957

    1957/04/08 – Front cover features Trout Fisherman A. Wells Peck – Preview: The Trout Season, A Nationwide Report

  • Hang on and Pray – Victory comes to a doubting jockey in the Grand National by Whitney Tower
  • Ackus Marackus at Ohio – For 20 Year’s Ohio State’s divers have ruled their sport by Coles Phinizy
  • The Man Who Makes the Indians Run – A look at Cleveland’s Kerby Farrell by Roy Terrell
  • The Latest Discovery of America – The Hungarian Olympians complete their coast-to-coast Freedom Tour and record it all in snapshots
  • Whoomph! Goes the Rider – A spectator’s alert camera records a sensational spill at the Maryland Hunt Club – 2 pages in color
  • Ben Hogan’s Modern Fundamentals of Golf – Part 5 of 5
  • The Trout Are Waiting – A state by state survey for the eager angler by Thomas H. Lineaweaver
  • Pennants Are Won the Spring – So said John McGraw — Frank Frisch recalls the hard-boiled era
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    • 1957-05-27 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents May 27 1957

    1957/05/27 – Front cover features Preview of the Indianapolis 500 featuring National Champion Driver Jim Bryan

  • Speed and Indianapolis by Kenneth Rudeen
  • In a Paris Wood – The Bois de Boulogne has something for both Parisians and tourists, with photos by Robert Doisneau and story by Horace Sutton
  • The Wonderful World of Sport
  • The Ruler Is Restored – how a trainer and a jockey lifted a temperamental champion to new heights in Pimlico’s 81st Preakness – About Bold Ruler, Eddie Arcaro and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons by Whitney Tower
  • Don Hoak – Then and Now by Roy Terrell
  • One Town’s Secret – An old-fashioned formula for fitness pays off in Newtown, Connecticut by Dorothy Stull
  • Part 3 of 4: The Lady and the Trout — John McDonald and Dwight A. Webster recontruct the Berners flies, and John Langley Howard paints them in four pages in color
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