Media coverage of The SPORT Gallery and The SPORT Collection
Knockout! SPORT Magazine ArchivesSports Collectors Digest, March 2, 2007
By T.S. O'Connell, Editor
It's one of the iconic sports magazine titles of the post-war era, a bold, unadorned statement of what the reader could expect. SPORT magazine was reading material for sports fans of all ages, but for many baby boomers it's remembered as much for stunning, full-color photography as it is for the trenchant prose from some of the most respected sportswriters in the country that accompanied them.
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And while the insider articles and interviews with the giants of professional sports were pure butter, it was the spectacular photography from the cover and in inside pages that often wound up as "fine art" plastered on the bedroom walls of the youth of America.
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Ultimately though, it was turning several dozen of those legendary photographs into fine art that proved to be the real stroke of genius. With many of the classic images from the 1930s to the 1960s, The SPORT Collection currently offers nearly three dozen giclee, fine-art prints (many are 18-by-22 inches), all limited edition, and offered in frame and unframed versions. Prices range from $195 and up.
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I guarantee you'll remember a whole bunch of the images. That's how Floyd Patterson wound up on the cover of this week's issue of SCD.
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