I don’t know how I missed this until today, but thanks to kottke.org I learned that Sports Illustrated has all of their issues since 1954 available online for free. Talk about a productivity vortex! I especially enjoyed this article from Walter Bingham dated July 31st, 1961 on Maris’ and Mantle’s assault on the home run record.
Really starting to enjoy this whole new intraweb thang. Hope it’s not a fad.
by on March 27, 2008 at 3:23 pm in History · 19 comments
Jesus man, this has been linked all over the web. But you just now find it and credit kottke?
Try to expand a little bit. Reading only kottke makes you look like an idiot.
matt March 27, 2008 at 3:47 pm
As big an idiot as you look now, Matt? Unlikely.
I’ve been meaning to post on this for a while, but I kept having major problems with the SI search engine. Looks like those are fixed now. Kudos to them, and to the NYT, for allowing so much of their history to be researchable for free. If only more publications would follow their lead…
Paul SF March 27, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I love those classic Dan Marino covers…ahhh, the good old days of being a Dolphins fan!!!
krueg March 27, 2008 at 4:16 pm
> Reading only kottke makes you look like an idiot
Nonsense, sir. I have not begun to show how big of an idiot I am.
attackgerbil March 27, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Count me as one to see the humor in Matt’s post.
Matt, use a :) to indicate any humor, even deep sarcasm. Some have sensitive ears.
:)
A YF March 27, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I agree with Paul that it is fantastic when one finds these resources, hence my retelling what I already alluded was probably rather common knowledge. I got the humor. Count me as one to be not easily offended by observations about.. um.. myself, though by observing my position you can not know my vector or velocity, or something quantum something. And I beg to differ with Matt on one more point: I have been expanding. Unfortunately, it has been a lateral move.
attackgerbil March 27, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Covers from the 80s are my favorites.
no sleep til brooklyn sf March 27, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Everything from the 80s are my favorties :-)
Paul SF March 27, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Hey, if that was humor, I apologize, but if it was, it was not a very good attempt at it. Just sounded like someone who really REALLY doesn’t like kottke.
Paul SF March 27, 2008 at 4:52 pm
You could do worse than reading only Kottke.
On Maris, Mantle, and asterisks, more from your humble moderator, anon…..
YF March 27, 2008 at 4:52 pm
If they have the late 70s-era issue with Cheryl Tiegs on the cover, I am so there.
Hudson March 27, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Is this close enough? quite possibly NSFW…
attackgerbil March 27, 2008 at 5:18 pm
AG – your 4:29 post makes you my hero. If I could have that response even half the times someone said something insulting, I’d be a better man…
Brent - SF March 27, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Great googly moogly!
LocklandSF March 27, 2008 at 6:08 pm
for what it’s worth, I’ve never heard of Kottke. so consider my mind expanded; thanks AG. but what’s this intraweb thing you speak of?
Paul – I think it is just a matter of time before we see other publications begin to fill in the gaps of total archiving. the ones who have been around as long as SI and, good gravy, the NYT… I imagine that takes a while to put them online, right?
FenSheaParkway March 27, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Lockland: I know, right?
AG, want to add to Brent’s kudos…way to let it roll off (or recognize humor for what it is, I guess).
Devine March 27, 2008 at 8:16 pm
A lot of the old-school publications are completely archived — the Globe is, for example. But they charge you per article or per month or whatever you want. In fact, the NYT is the only major paper that allows any kind of free access that I could find while I was researching the Top 50 list. Oh, there is also The Sporting News, whose archives you can browse (through a pretty inefficient searching method) by registering for free at paperofrecord.com
Paul SF March 27, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Awesome.
I will officially not be getting anyting done today.
This one is freaking awesome…
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8183/index.htm
Brad March 28, 2008 at 10:01 am
Required Reading:
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119283/index.htm
YF March 28, 2008 at 10:29 am