September 1946, $95.00

SPORT magazine ceased publication in August 2000, but its vast reservoir of feature articles and classic photography lives on. The stories and images that made SPORT magazine the No. 1 sports publication in North America in the post-war years can be licensed for use in such mediums as newspapers, books, magazines and websites, or purchased outright in the form of SPORT magazine cover replicas and limited and open edition prints.

A sizeable selection of SPORT articles and images will eventually be available online. Today, however, articles and images can be obtained only by request. A small research fee may apply, but the research fee will be deducted from any purchase. Pricing is dependent on various factors (intended usage, purchase vs. licensing; size of image, required format).

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The SPORT Collection, comprising more than 200,000 images, is recognized as one of the world's most significant archives of 20th century sports photography. Its particular strength is in the 30 years following WWII, when SPORT pioneered the use of color sports photography. Its library of color images from the years 1946 to 1965 is without equal and includes virtually every superstar of that era.

In recent years, SPORT images have been featured in several books, including: Total Baseball; Total Basketball; The Best of SPORT; 1955 in SPORT; Maravich; Janet Guthrie, A Life at Full Throttle; The Lost Legacy of Muhammad Ali; Jimmy Connors Saved My Life; The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics; The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels; The Glory Days, New York Baseball 1947-1957; and Baseball's Pride and Glory.

Images have also been purchased by or licensed to Major League Baseball, the Washington Nationals, A&E Biography, Sports Collector's Digest, the Tim McCarver Show, and the Museum of the City of New York.

The SPORT Collection comprises transparencies, negatives, wire photos and vintage prints shot by SPORT's esteemed staff photographers, including Martin Blumenthal, George Heyer, and Kevin Fitzgerald, as well as thousands of images from such admired SPORT contributors as David Sutton, Marvin Newman, Curt Gunther, Lawrence Schiller, Malcolm Emmons, Bob Peterson, Fred Kaplan, Neil Leifer, and Calvin Campbell. Thousands of the images in the SPORT Collection have never been published anywhere.

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SPORT magazine enlisted some of North America's most renowned writers to chronicle the lives and careers of North America's biggest stars. Now this treasure of sports history is available to the public. SPORT magazine published 647 issues comprising approximately 10,000 stories and 40 million words from September 1946 to August 2000. Many of those articles are available for purchase and/or license in reprint form, or as a research source for sports historians, authors and casual fans.

Not only did SPORT focus on the superstars of the post-war era in features such as the SPORT Special and SPORT profile, but it paid homage to the great athletes of the first half of the 20th Century. A regular feature called The SPORT Hall of Fame profiled in lengthy detail 70 superstar athletes, from baseball superstars Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig and Walter Johnson to Jack Dempsey, Ben Hogan, Red Grange, George Mikan, Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens, Johnny Longden and Joe Louis (view complete list).

For a change of pace, the magazine frequently hired celebrity authors, including Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, George C. Scott, Alex Haley, William F. Buckley, Lee Iaccoca and Steve McQueen, as well as commissioning "as told to" pieces from athletes, including Ben Hogan, Bill Russell, Gale Sayers, Hank Aaron, Jack Dempsey, Mrs. Babe Ruth, Jackie Robison, Joe DiMaggio, Rocky Marciano, Vince Lombardi, and Shoeless Joe Jackson (view list).

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