Time Magazine Baseball Covers, 1923-1982

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:

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