Cover of SPORTS WORLD Magazine, May 1949 Issue – Joe DiMaggio
Description
A color slide of the cover of the May 1949 edition of SPORTS WORLD 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 his left shoulder and part of the bat are obscured. Superimposed around the photograph are a series of text boxes with the following content: SPORTS WORLD AMERICA'S FAN MAGAZINE; BASEBALL'S TOP ROOKIES; Hogan Picks Golf's 18 Toughest Holes; CERDAN'S SECRET OF SOCK-SESS; MAY 25 cents; PHILADELPHIA FANS! Read The PENN RELAYS Page 51 History of the Top U.S. Track Carnival in a Picture Story; IS THIS DIMAGGIO'S LAST BIG YEAR?; BASKETBALL; BASEBALL; TRACK; BOWLING; BOXING; A HILLMAN PUBLICATION
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Picture Date
1949–1949