Yearbook Cover Derby Round 2.15 1966 vs 1987 rev

[Benjamin Grimm]

1966
Defeated the 2014 cover in Round 1.24



1987 Revised Edition
Defeated the 1992 cover in Round 1.26

[Guest d'Kong76]

Went-went-went with GO-GO-GO

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is a close vote so far. For the first time, Willard Mullin is in serious jeopardy.

I like what the 1987 cover represents, obviously, but I don't like its execution. 1966 gets my vote.

[G-Fafif]

This one presents us with perhaps the most intriguing conceptual battle yet: the act of Mets fandom vs. the pinnacle of Mets success.

I adore everything about that 1966 cover (Willard even gets the "s" in Mets right), but I look at those two goofy guys brandishing that banner and think about how crazy they'd go for the kind of team the 1987 cover celebrated. Maybe they're even lining the sidewalk for the parade 20 years later.

Which one would they vote for? The innocent enthusiasm of the franchise's youth that they were such a part of or a celebration of their team winning in a fashion by which they had never won before? If you were a Mets fan in 1986 (and 1987), you were a part of the championship. If you were a Mets fan in 1966, you were the championship fan, certainly as interpreted by Mullin.

We always root for the Mets. We always root for ourselves rooting for the Mets.

Ah, the 1986 Mets got their trophy. I'm for giving the 1966 fans a chance to keep moving up.

[Edgy MD]

It's pretty nice composition for 1987B. The only problem I have with the layout is too much space is given to an inconsequential skyscraper, with the point of it's inclusion, the celebration below, largely obscured.

I still went for my sweet little 66.