The greatest of all Brownies, the one and only George Sisler, is shown
on the cover of Time Magazine for March 30, 1925. The first ever ball
player to grace said cover.
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The greatest of all Brownies, the one and only George Sisler, is shown
on the cover of Time Magazine for March 30, 1925. The first ever ball
player to grace said cover.
Last edited by Brownie31; 10-26-2006 at 12:46 PM.
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That's interesting, I wonder why he would be the first ballplayer to make the cover of Time Magazine and not Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth. Strange too how the photo must have been taken during spring training yet they picked Sisler. Also this was after his eye injury too and although he had a good 1924 season he was nothing like what he did before his injury.
I think he's a top 10 firstbasemen but that really says alot of how he was thought of back then to be picked over guys like Ruth, Cobb and Hornsby.
15 cents seems like an awful lot of money for a magazine in 1925 too.
re-edited----I looked up Time magazine and they first started printing the magazine in 1923 so i'm sure they had alot of other people to choose from between the time of the first issue and the Sisler issue and in 1925 that was the year Ruth was suspended so i'm sure he got voted off the cover and Cobb may have been either too old or not friendly enough. So I guess those may be reasons why Sisler got the cover.
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I've never understood the thinking of Time's cover photos. Anyway, it would be interesting to read Sisler's story inside. He was probably held in high esteem in those days, someone you'd want your son to emulate in contrast to Ruth or Cobb.
Recently, researchers have discovered an error in his 1922 average of .422. If the errors hold up, his average would sink to .416, although more research may have given him a hit back.
Branch Rickey once said that in 1922 Sisler was the "greatest player that ever lived."
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you can get this as a poster from the Time website. I'm still undecided, mostly because of the negativity of the subhead ("Pittsburgh never forgave him." - why the heck did they use that?)
not a bad drawing though.
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