Zack Greinke on the cover of Sports Illustrated on this day 17 years ago. Greinke won the 2009 AL Cy Young in a landslide with a 2.16 ERA and a 16-8 record for the last-place Royals. The New York Times called his win “a watershed moment in baseball’s statistical revolution,” the first time voters seemed to ignore pitcher wins as a meaningful statistic. Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, and CC Sabathia each had 19 wins that year, but received just three of the 28 first-place votes among them.

Swipe to see the late Dikembe Mutumbo’s final moment as an NBA player, Derrick Rose rise to block a Rajon Rondo floater, Kelly Slater riding a wave, and a bonus ad featuring David Lee wooing a woman with the seductive scents of Right Guard Xtreme Clear Power Gel Fast Break.

Jason Kidd on the cover of SLAM 26 years ago this month. Swipe to see All-Star Game Kobe, Iowa State’s Marcus Fizer, Diana Taurasi in high school, and Allen Iverson, who was the other cover star of issue #42.

Palmer led the Masters after all four rounds in 1960, securing his second green jacket and the biggest money prize of the season: $17,500.

30 years ago today, Sports Illustrated dropped a cover story about born-again Christian David Robinson and his efforts to lead the Spurs to a title while "remaining pure in a world beset by the seven deadly sins."

Among many eyebrow-raising quotes, Robinson had this to say about Michael Jordan's comeback from retirement: "I don't understand what Michael's doing. Why did he come back? He has a beautiful wife and three kids. What's he trying to prove that he hasn't proved already? ... It seems to me he's just chasing his own tail."