In January 1983, Trader Speaks published this great piece from Frank Keetz highlighting the 44 times between 1923 and 1982 that a baseball player appeared on Time Magazine’s cover!
A few highlights:
- Time has highlighted a baseball player on the cover ~1.5% of the time
- Time Magazine covers are tougher finds than old Life, Sports, Sports Illustrated, and Street and Smith publications
- George H. Sisler was the first baseball personality to appear on the cover.
- Only Joe DiMaggio appeared more than once
- If you’re a Mantle guy, you need the issue dated 6/15/1953
Here are the Sisler and Mantle covers:
