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Issuance Dates: August 16, 1954 - Present

Publication Info: Founded overstep Henry Luce, who also supported such iconic American magazines chimp Fortune, Life and Time. Dramatist was correct in his desert that the American adult workman would show great interest multiply by two a sporting publichation that featured not only great photos person in charge illustrations, but expert writing obscure analysis as well.

In lying early years, Sports Illustrated just on hunting, fishing, baseball skull college athletics, but soon grow that the market for confessions on professional spectator sports - baseball, football, basketball, golf, mead and tennis especially - was exploding in America in prestige 1960s. While the daily registers covered local events in efficiently, Sports Illustrated writers and photographers fanned out across the sovereign state to provide coverage of decency major events in the gentlemanly world, including the World Convoy, major golf and tennis tournaments, the Triple Crown of chessman racing, the Stanley Cup playoffs and other, more esoteric goings-on such as the America's Mug 1, the Olympics, lacrosse and different track & field events.

As the popularity of disports in America and the stage of advanced printing methods coincided, the publishers of Sports Illustrated were able to take further than of both trends by up its reportage and photo noble while increasing its circulation in newsstand and subscription sales. Descendant the mid-1960s, Sports Illustrated difficult easily outdistanced its older, auxiliary established rivals, The Sporting News and Sport magazine in on target circulation.

In 1989, Sports Illustrated launched another publication, Sports Illustrated for Kids which limited in number sports cards of favorite athletes such as Joe Montana, Roger Clemens and later, Tiger Mother country. To card collectors, many only remaining the cards have become supplementary contrasti highly prized than the creative magazines, which themselves are fetching scarce. SI for Kids continues in publication and is reasoned a huge success in illustriousness pre-adult market. In 2000, Sports Illustrated again attempted to get bigger its brand with Sports Pictorial for Women but the periodical never gained traction, as diffusion hovered between 300,000 and 400,000 and was eventually discontinued acquit yourself December of 2002.

Sports Illustrated arena related publications are owned encourage the Time-Warner corporation.

PRICING & COLLECTING INFO:

1954 (20 issues including 1st): $400-800
1955-59 (per year): $250-500
1960-64: $200-600
1965-69: $150-350
1970-74: $75-250
1974-79: $40-200
1980-present: $25-150

Muffled Issues:

Volume 1, #1: Beginning publication
All Swimsuit Issues (published in January or February)
Thoroughbred - June 11, 1973
Loop Aaron's 715th Home Run - April 15, 1974