When was sports illustrated founded

Douglas MacArthur from his command in In response, angry supporters of the bank gathered outside the White House and burned an effigy of Tyler. Five years to the day after half a million rain-soaked hippies grooved and swayed to the psychedelic sounds of the Grateful Dead at Woodstock, four young men from Forest Hills, Queens, took to the stage of an East Village dive bar in jeans, motorcycle jackets and Converse A four-year-old girl was the sole survivor of the accident, which was caused by pilot error.

Northwest Flight was headed to California with a stopover in Phoenix when it pulled away Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. War of Art, Literature, and Film History. Sign Up. World War II. Vietnam War. The top-seeded Lakers will face the No. Lawn Tennis Assn. Open, at Forest Hills, N.

Wills Moody, at age 17 from Berkeley, Calif. Wills Moody, considered the first American-born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete, won 19 Grand Slam singles titles in her career. Louis Cardinals at Forbes Field. Kiner also had five runs batted in, four runs scored and two walks. Ten home runs were hit in the game. Gil Hodges hit two home runs over the fence for the Dodgers off Sal Maglie. Rams assistant coaches who survived cancer push on during pandemic.

Stockton sank a par-saving foot putt on the 72nd hole to finish at one-over-par on the Blue Course at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. A young writer joined the staff, and his first assignment was to write a caption about a horse hurdling a fence. After several days of frustration, he quit, leaving behind this caption in his typewriter: "The——horse jumped over the——fence.

We struck suntan oil in our third issue, when we put a bathing beauty on the cover, in the surf off exotic Jones Beach, in New York. Years before our first true swimsuit issue, in , we were on to something. That third issue also featured our first letters to the editor section, with praise from the likes of Thomas Dewey, Samuel Goldwyn, Clark Griffith, Hank Greenberg and Sandburg, who wrote, "The new magazine is a honey.

Good writing, high readability, illustrations pat and high-spot. Our first cancellation notice, from Walter Greenblatt of Dallas, also appeared in that first letters column. Of the home run race—Roger Maris versus Mickey Mantle versus Babe Ruth—we wrote in our July 31 issue of that year: "A season is a season, no matter how many games are played, and if Mantle hits 61 home runs this year, the answer to the question of who has hit the most home runs in one season will be Mickey Mantle.

Besides, no crowd watching Mantle's 61st home run sailing out of the park will be talked out of the conviction that it has just seen a new record being set. SI's first managing editor, Sidney James, was in many ways the ideal man for the job. While circulation was strong from Day 1, Madison Avenue viewed sport as a blue-collar preoccupation whose followers could not afford the products the agencies were selling.

Peter Carr, one of the magazine's advertising salesmen at the time, concurs. That skepticism about SI didn't apply to the sports world. Long before the red ink turned black, SI began to catch on. Jeremiah Tax, who joined the magazine as a writer in , recalls being sent to Peoria, Ill.

They even knew what plane I was flying in on. The magazine began to place a greater emphasis on hard sports when Andre Laguerre replaced James as managing editor in A Frenchman and an intimate of Charles de Gaulle who had been TIME'S London bureau chief, Laguerre was a brilliant, slightly rumpled man with a remarkable grasp of American sports, largely acquired as a youth in San Francisco his father was in the French diplomatic corps.

As it turned out, we got the French Oscar Madison. Laguerre was a man of few words, but he inspired fierce devotion among his staffers. He loved pro football, and the magazine's growth coincided with the NFL's. Or perhaps it wasn't a coincidence. We helped create fans for the sport, and in turn, pro football created readers for the magazine.

From our Feb. Unfortunately for Cassius Marcellus Clay, he is not yet a match for Liston in the somewhat more pertinent matters of ring craftsmanship, punching power and the ability to take a smart clip on the jaw with no loss of equanimity or senses. We have not shied from informing our readers about the underside of sports. Our series on corruption in boxing in helped to bring about reform in that sport. Over the years we have focused on the black athlete, violence in football, the fixing of horse races and college basketball games, women in sports, money and sports, and, through the eyes of former NFL defensive lineman Don Reese, the destructive influence of cocaine on sports.

We have crusaded long and hard against such disparate ills as the abuse of anabolic steroids, violence in hockey and environmental pollution. A Sept. Occasionally we have made news ourselves.

Reporter Melissa Ludtke helped open the doors of all locker rooms to women journalists when she successfully challenged baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn's ban at the World Series. Less seriously, George Plimpton's story in the April 1, , issue about an unknown pitching phenom who played the French horn and studied Tibetan mysticism made headlines across the country.

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch was a hoax, concocted by the editors and Plimpton, who has also written in our pages about his Walter Mittyesque pursuit of athletics, including playing quarterback for the Detroit Lions and goalie for the Boston Bruins. The cover of the April 20, , issue featured three women track athletes from the University of Texas, with the billing Texas Girls Aim for Tokyo. This qualifies as a great moment because of the aerodynamically unsound hairdos of the "girls.

If Flo-Jo tried to run in the gargantuan beehive sported by one of the runners, her feet would cross the finish line several seconds before her head would.

The only defense we can offer is that we were in another life at the time. We have also attracted attention because of the hex supposedly cast on our cover subjects.