June 14, 1959
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
What To Call Him?
John or Joe if he's a boy, but if he has four legs and runs, you can have a proper peck of trouble picking a proper name
Baseball's Week
Coming Events
Boxing's Dirty Business
Mantle
The great slump ended when Mickey Mantle stopped playing ball like an $80,000-a-year resident of Easy Street. His blazing bat and fiery base running woke up the Yankees
Spectacle
Events & Discoveries
Wonderful World Of Sport
Agony And Upsets
U.S. track prospects are brightening in this pre-Olympic year—and Kansas is still the best bet for the NCAA title
Field Dogs
Pictured on these pages in the poses characteristic of their performances in the field are the 22 most popular sporting dogs in America today. Each is an expert in his particular phase of hunting, but, like any expert, each must be trained to use his instinctive abilities with maximum efficiency. In this issue Sports Illustrated begins a four-part series that will teach you how to train your dog to hunt in the field
Field Training: Part I
Food
The crown roast, an old-fashioned dish as decorative as it is delicious, can be the crowning glory of a dinner party
Horse Racing
Black Hills is the newest threat among the 3-year-olds, and he can prove it by winning this Saturday's 91st Belmont Stakes
Cards
Baseball
Big league baseball is no longer a novelty, but still the throngs spill into Los Angeles' Coliseum to watch the pennant race in the game's strangest but most exciting setting
Johnson
BEGINNING the extraordinary story of Jack Johnson, the Negro fighter whose brilliant skill won for his race the first championship of the world, and for himself a life of spectacular excess and ultimate tragedy
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
Pat On The Back
'They found what they wanted'
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