Cover of SPORT LIFE Magazine, July 1949 Issue – Joe DiMaggio
Description
A color slide of the cover of the JULY 1949 edition of SPORT LIFE magazine, featuring a head-and-shoulder photograph of Joe Dimaggio holding a baseball bat and wearing a New York Yankee home uniform with cap. DiMaggio faces the viewer's right and part of his left shoulder and part of the bat are obscured. Near the top of the cover there is text alongside and slightly beneath the superimposed photograph. The text includes the following content: SPORT LIFE the BIG SPORTS magazine; a text box that reads: "BILL VEECK says: "I'm Seein' Stars"; JULY 25 [cents]; and JOE DI MAGGIO "Best Yankee of them all!". Near the bottom of the cover, there is a text banner superimposed on the photograph, with the following text: EIGHT NEW BASEBALL FEATURES INCLUDING: BOB DILLINGER*TOMMY HOLMES*JOHNNY GROTH*RALPH KINER DON'T MISS THE BIG-LEAGUE ROUNDUP.
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1949–1949