Yearbook Cover Derby Round 2.12 1972 vs 1997

[Benjamin Grimm]

1972
Defeated the 2008 cover in Round 1.23



1997
Defeated the 1982 cover in Round 1.22

[Guest d'Kong76]

Fearsome foursome for me-some.

[Guest cooby]

I must have missed that second one in the first round. Do you know what it reminds me of? Those kids books that have the covers that ‘move’ when you slightly tilt them around. I always loved them!

Is this cover like that?

[Guest cooby]

Googled it; apparently it IS a 3D image of hundley’s 40th HR. voting for it

[seawolf17]

cooby wrote: Googled it; apparently it IS a 3D image of hundley’s 40th HR. voting for it

I want desperately to vote for that one because I love it -- and I did vote for it in the first round -- but there's a key point that I missed last time; that shortstop in the foreground ruins it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's also up against a much better cover this time around.

[Edgy MD]

I like the idea, even if the effect is lost here (can we get an animated gif?), but 65% of the cover is wasted on wallpaper.

[stevejrogers]

If someone is more coordinated with GIF making, here is the footage.

The book is not in front of me to check, but I have to assume its the pitch being thrown and the instant of contact.

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[RealityChuck]

I prefer to see things from multiple angles. 1997

[G-Fafif]

Every time I see that 1972 cover, I see it in the second-from-bottom drawer of the wooden chest of drawers my mother put in my room around the time that yearbook came out. She insisted on covering it in various shades of contact paper, but I eventually peeled it off. Every season, when I got a new yearbook, I'd slip it in the same drawer, under that one. Every time I decided I needed to look something up, I'd open that drawer and see the 1972 cover. One of the knobs on one of the drawers on that chest was perpetually loose. It always bugged me. I also remember how dark the cover seemed because I usually only had a lamp on, over on the other side of the room. Maybe I couldn't or didn't want to sleep, so instead I decided I needed to stare at the Old Timer's Day spread in which Tom Seaver learned a little something from Carl Hubbell or Satchel Paige.

Todd Hundley could literally leap off the page and it wouldn't beat my most Proustian yearbook memories.