Goodbye Productivity, Hello History

I don't know how I missed this until today, but thanks to kottke.org I learned that Sports Illustrated has all of their issues since 1954 available online for free. Talk about a productivity vortex! I especially enjoyed this article from Walter Bingham dated July 31st, 1961 on Maris' and Mantle's assault on the home run record.

Really starting to enjoy this whole new intraweb thang. Hope it's not a fad.

Comments

[matt]

Jesus man, this has been linked all over the web. But you just now find it and credit kottke?

Try to expand a little bit. Reading only kottke makes you look like an idiot.

[Paul SF]

As big an idiot as you look now, Matt? Unlikely.

I've been meaning to post on this for a while, but I kept having major problems with the SI search engine. Looks like those are fixed now. Kudos to them, and to the NYT, for allowing so much of their history to be researchable for free. If only more publications would follow their lead...

[krueg]

I love those classic Dan Marino covers...ahhh, the good old days of being a Dolphins fan!!!

[attackgerbil]

> Reading only kottke makes you look like an idiot

Nonsense, sir. I have not begun to show how big of an idiot I am.

[A YF]

Count me as one to see the humor in Matt's post.

Matt, use a :) to indicate any humor, even deep sarcasm. Some have sensitive ears.

:)

[attackgerbil]

I agree with Paul that it is fantastic when one finds these resources, hence my retelling what I already alluded was probably rather common knowledge. I got the humor. Count me as one to be not easily offended by observations about.. um.. myself, though by observing my position you can not know my vector or velocity, or something quantum something. And I beg to differ with Matt on one more point: I have been expanding. Unfortunately, it has been a lateral move.

[no sleep til brooklyn sf]

Covers from the 80s are my favorites.

[Paul SF]

Everything from the 80s are my favorties :-)

[Paul SF]

Hey, if that was humor, I apologize, but if it was, it was not a very good attempt at it. Just sounded like someone who really REALLY doesn't like kottke.

[YF]

You could do worse than reading only Kottke.

On Maris, Mantle, and asterisks, more from your humble moderator, anon.....

[Hudson]

If they have the late 70s-era issue with Cheryl Tiegs on the cover, I am so there.

[attackgerbil]

Is this close enough? quite possibly NSFW...

[Brent - SF]

AG - your 4:29 post makes you my hero. If I could have that response even half the times someone said something insulting, I'd be a better man...

[LocklandSF]

Great googly moogly!

[FenSheaParkway]

for what it's worth, I've never heard of Kottke. so consider my mind expanded; thanks AG. but what's this intraweb thing you speak of?

Paul - I think it is just a matter of time before we see other publications begin to fill in the gaps of total archiving. the ones who have been around as long as SI and, good gravy, the NYT... I imagine that takes a while to put them online, right?

[Devine]

Lockland: I know, right?

AG, want to add to Brent's kudos...way to let it roll off (or recognize humor for what it is, I guess).

[Paul SF]

A lot of the old-school publications are completely archived -- the Globe is, for example. But they charge you per article or per month or whatever you want. In fact, the NYT is the only major paper that allows any kind of free access that I could find while I was researching the Top 50 list. Oh, there is also The Sporting News, whose archives you can browse (through a pretty inefficient searching method) by registering for free at paperofrecord.com

[Brad]

Awesome.
I will officially not be getting anyting done today.

This one is freaking awesome...

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/8183/index.htm

[YF]

Required Reading:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119283/index.htm