Note the Sporting News hologram of authenticity at back. This indicates their assurance that the photo is an original and not a copy. Sporting News did not produce the photo, but received it from ABC-TV. The photo has no copyright markings on it as can be seen in the links above.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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