SI's complete story archive going online

I just re-read "A Colt Made Philly History" by Mark Bowden. It was the story I'd been wanting to read again for the longest time.

It was like finding an old friend after years apart.

 

I would be more interested in the photos.

 

Cheryl tiegs. Fishnet. End of thread.

 

For those interested in starting from the beginning and working your way forward through the years, here's a link to the very first issue, August 16, 1954: http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/7370/index.htm

I plan on doing a lot of skimming through the issues and reading whatever catches my eye through the years.
Thanks for the future good times, SI.

 

Too bad SI didn't also post the two prototype issues that were published to show advertisers what they were in for. The second, titled "Dummy" because Time Inc. was still searching for a name, was almost exactly like the early years of SI, and published on deadline in the spring of 1954. The first was completely different, more New Yorker-ish.

 

Here's my favorite story. From the Nov. 23, 1970 issue, this is George Plimpton's take on the hours leading up to Muhammad Ali's fight with Jerry Quarry.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1084326/index.htm

I almost think our favorite stories from this vault deserves its own thread. This is fantastic stuff.

 

Sirs, Madames,

A promise finally made good. What's next? That Neil Young career retrospective?

I'm going to the Dan Gable story in the Bobby Hull/Hawks cover and issues that I used to have, covers of George Chuvalo, Bill Bradley and Pistol.

YD&OHS, etc

 

Well then, here ya go ...

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/photo/home/index.htm

 

I have a really busy day ahead but have spent most of the morning going through the vault getting cauight up on Gary Smith's Radio and Amish basketball coach stories as well as Mark Kram's gamer on the first Ali-Frazier fight.

I may be running a bit behind the rest of the day.

 

Huggy, check out the story on Larry Csonka from 7-25-79.
I miss Zonk.

 

Can anybody explain why I keep getting this guff instead of text?


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