Friday, October 3, 2008

Preview Guides Available Online

It's sometimes easy to forget just how cool of a world we live in. As I do my best to collect the various annual preview guides, I discover again and again that the internet has me beat by miles (well, in one way... it's still a thousand times easier and more fun to own and read physical magazine instead of computer files/web pages).

As of today, I know of these digital archives:
  • The Sports Illustrated Vault - a collection of every Sports Illustrated issue ever, online and for free; the search functionality makes it more difficult to go through than it should
  • Baseball Digest Monthly on Google Book Search - the full back catalog of Baseball Digest Monthly, since 1945, is available for free viewing within Google Book Search; being on Google, the search functionality is fantastic, and makes it real easy to find what you're looking for
  • UPDATED 1/1823/09: The Sporting News Vault - all issues of TSN are available for viewing and searching online to registered users through their Paper of Record service. See my post about it here. (Since you must be registered to use the service, I am unable to link to the specific preview issues here.) Sadly, the Sporting News Vault is no longer available.
I will update this page with more archives as I find them.

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The list below provides direct links to each publication's annual preview issue for each year.


Sports IllustratedBaseball Digest
1945(no issue)(no issue)
1946(no issue)(no issue)
1947(no issue)May 1947
1948(no issue)April 1948
1949(no issue)(no issue)
1950(no issue)April 1950
1951(no issue)April 1951
1952(no issue)(no issue)
1953(no issue)April 1953
1954(no issue)April 1954
1955April 11, 1955
April 18, 1955
April 1955
1956April 9, 1956
April 1956
1957April 15, 1957
April 1957
1958April 14, 1958
April 1958
1959April 13, 1959
April 1959
1960April 11, 1960
March 1960
1961April 10, 1961
April 1961
1962April 9, 1962
April 1962
1963April 8, 1963
April 1963
1964April 13, 1964
March 1964
1965April 19, 1965
April 1965
1966April 18, 1966
April 1966
1967April 17, 1967
April 1967
1968April 15, 1968
April 1968
1969April 14, 1969
April 1969
1970April 13, 1970
April 1970
1971April 12, 1971
April 1971
1972April 10, 1972
April 1972
1973April 9, 1973
April 1973
1974April 8, 1974
April 1974
1975April 7, 1975
April 1975
1976April 12, 1976
April 1976
1977April 11, 1977
April 1977
1978April 10, 1978
April 1978
1979April 9, 1979
April 1979
1980April 7, 1980
April 1980
1981April 13, 1981
April 1981
1982April 12, 1982
April 1982
1983April 4, 1983
April 1983
1984April 2, 1984
April 1984
1985April 15, 1985
April 1985
1986April 14, 1986
April 1986
1987April 6, 1987
April 1987
1988April 4, 1988
(no issue)
1989April 5, 1989
April 1989
1990April 16, 1990
April 1990
1991April 15, 1991
April 1991
1992April 6, 1992
April 1992
1993April 5, 1993
April 1993
1994April 4, 1994
April 1994
1995May 1, 1995
April 1995
1996April 1, 1996
April 1996
1997March 31, 1997
April 1997
1998March 23, 1998
(no issue)
1999March 29, 1999
April 1999
2000
March 27, 2000
April 2000
2001
March 26, 2001
April 2001
2002
March 25, 2002
April 2002
2003
March 31, 2003
April 2003
2004
April 5, 2004
April 2004
2005
April 4, 2005
March 2005
2006
April 3, 2006
April 2006
2006 Annual Guide
2007
March 26, 2007
March 2007
2007 Annual Guide
2008
March 31, 2008
(no issue)
2009
April 6, 2009
(no issue)