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kcmets Draft Eligible

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Following up, I'm a little disappointed with was I can come up with to get a few

more. Your list is extensive and a couple of ones I would add for consideration are

just plain lousy images. But I have a day or two to keep plugging...



(Btw, I hate the Seaver in a Sox hat above. Ugly hat and seeing him in that uni

just plain hurts to the bone...)


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I like how both Seaver's White Sox uniform and Nolan Ryan's Astro's uniform featured uniform numbers on the thigh. It, you know, drew one's attention to the cock area, and helped baseball be that much more zexy.


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Some sees tomato, others sees tomatoh...



I have a biography by Gene Schoor with him on the cover in Sox garb. Fugly stuff.


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Oh, I agree. I like the thigh number, but the overall effect of that White Sox uniform is awful. The huge SOX shield on the hat and the jersey are just such a weekend softball look. EVERYBODY looked fat in it, too.


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Edgy MD wrote:

Young Tom Seaver, looking over his shoulder like a badass, wearing a batting helmet and still carrying himself like he's the man to beat, even at the plate. A sidebar box on his shoulder, but no header or footer text floating over him.



Hard. To. Beat.



https://i.pinimg.com/236x/e0/27/0d/e0270d6a2cd3d58796046ddfc7edf357--sports-art-sports-illustrated.jpg>


This terrific cover also annoyed the living shit out of me. It's Seaver's only TSN cover as a Met. Are you kidding me, TSN? TSN, the weekly that featured baseball players on its covers virtually year round. TSN would cover a marginal player over the NBA championship because it was baseball season. I mean, a player, if he was a baseball player, could get on that cover just by having two hot weeks. Ken Reitz was on the cover of TSN. So was Jorge Orta. And Milt Wilcox. And Gary Alexander. I'd bet anything that every one of Tom Seaver's contemporaries that was a first ballot no doubt about it Hall of Famer -- I'm talking guys like Bench and Reggie and Rod Carew and Steve Carlton -- probably made the cover of TSN at least three times. And Seaver, the greatest pitcher of his generation, maybe even the best player of his generation, gets just one Met cover. What a gyp.


I'm sure at some point he told someone to fuck off and that's why they never used him again.


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Now that we're underway, here's a little more information on how this is going to work.



There are 114 covers.* Imagine that they're in a pile, like a deck of cards, arranged in chronological order. I deal the covers into 32 piles. There are 18 piles with four covers each and 14 piles with three covers each. These are our 32 first-round polls. This is why we're seeing a choice between three or four covers, all from different eras of Mets history.



When the first round is complete, the covers will be ranked from 1 to 32 based on the percentage of votes earned in the first round. The leader of Round 1.01, Casey of the Mets, currently has 94.4 per cent of the vote, and is therefore likely to be ranked very highly when the second round starts. Once the rankings are done, we'll have, as we've had in other Cover Derbies, a traditional bracket-based single-elimination tournament, where the #1 cover faces off against #32, #2 against #31, etc.



Polls will be posted four days a week, from Monday through Thursday. We'll take Friday and weekends off. Each new poll will be pinned to the top of the forum, but no more than two will be pinned at a time. As each new poll gets pinned, one older poll will be unpinned.



*If anyone spots any new eligible covers that get published before the first round ends, let me know and I'll squeeze them in where appropriate. Once the final poll of the first round (1.32) is posted, the competition will be closed to any additional covers.


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That Ellery Queen cover that was presented today is probably my favorite "find" from when I was gathering the material. There may be others that will be equally unknown, but we'll see.



Another note, we're now up to 115 covers. Johnny Lunchbucket shared a really obscure 1962 cover with me earlier today. It will be added to Round 1.19, which will be an exception to the chronological sequence I set up, but I figured that would have to happen if any new covers surfaced once we were underway. Round 1.19 was slated to be the first one to include only three covers, but now that will be delayed until Round 1.20.



Reminder: no polls on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays, so after tomorrow's poll, we're on hiatus until Monday.


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1983 cover alert:



https://www.ebay.com/itm/TOM-SEAVER-NY-Mets-New-York-Sports-Magazine-May-1983-Premier-Edition-No-Label/302386622264?hash=item4667a5af38:g:Tu8AAOSwXJNZbSJ3:sc:USPSPriorityFlatRateEnvelope!42701!US!-1https://www.ebay.com/itm/TOM-SEAVER-NY-Mets-New-York-Sports-Magazine-May-1983-Premier-Edition-No-Label/302386622264?hash=item4667a5af38:g:Tu8AAOSwXJNZbSJ3:sc:USPSPriorityFlatRateEnvelope!42701!US!-1



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The subject of Sunday supplements I didn't save (from Round 1.22) leads me here to recall a magazine called Sports History, which had Tom Seaver in classic pitching form on its cover in 1989 to recall the 1969 Mets at twenty. I bought it at LaGuardia and saved the cover for years...but not enough years to be of any use to the Derby. Tried to find an image online but didn't have any success. I don't know if it will trickle in from somebody else's collection, but this contest has made me search the attic of my mind.



Here's the title if not the issue in question:



https://www.amazon.com/Sports-History-Magazine-February-Packers/dp/B001ZI9BKQhttps://www.amazon.com/Sports-History-Magazine-February-Packers/dp/B001ZI9BKQ


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In the inset, evidence of the Lee Mazzilli cover from the Sunday News Magazine, June 10, 1979, yielded by a Google search that led to (subscription-only) newspapers.com.



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Really enjoying this! Great job!


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This is the final week of Round One. By Thursday we'll have seen all of the covers in the competition. Next week we'll be on hiatus as we wait for this week's polls to close, and then Round Two will begin the week of May 20.


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We have now seen all of the covers in the Magazine Cover Derby. Next week, when the 32nd poll of the first round has completed, I'll post a graphic showing the brackets. Second-round voting will begin on May 20.


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The first round of The Magazine Cover Derby is now complete, and we have identified the 32 covers that are advancing to the second round. The covers are ranked by percentage of votes attained during first-round voting. In the few cases where there were ties, the cover that appeared in the earlier round got the higher ranking.



Sports Illustrated leads all other publications by far, with 14 of the 32 winning covers. Sport Magazine, The Sporting News, and The New Yorker have two covers each. ESPN, Inside Sports, Jet, Jock, Life, McCalls, New York, New York Sports, New York Sunday News Magazine, New York Times Magazine, SarcoScope, and Time all have one surviving cover.



29 of the 32 covers feature one Met personality, while two feature a group of Mets and one features Mona Lisa. Of the 29 covers that feature one individual, Darryl Strawberry is the leader, with five covers. Tom Seaver has four, Casey Stengel and Dwight Gooden each have three, and Willie Mays has two. There is one remaining cover each for Gary Carter, Frank Cashen, Ron Darling, Jerry Grote, Bud Harrelson, Jay Hook, Dave Kingman, Ray Knight, Jerry Koosman, Jose Reyes, Ron Swoboda, and Noah Syndergaard.



In Round Two, we'll see a Stengel vs. Stengel matchup, as well as as Seaver vs. Seaver and a Strawberry vs. Strawberry. We'll also see two Strawberry vs. Gooden battles.



Voting for the second round will begin on Monday, May 20.



Here's the full bracket:



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Related: Sports Illustrated has been sold to a licensing firm.



https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/sports-illustrated-sale-meredith-authentic-brands-1203226481/https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/sports-illustrated-sale-meredith-authentic-brands-1203226481/


Under terms of the deal, Authentic Brands acquires the rights to market, develop and license Sports Illustrated and its kids' edition as well as its swimsuit and “Sportsperson of the Year” franchises, along with the magazine's photo archive. Meredith will pay a licensing fee to operate the editorial operations of Sports Illustrated in print and in digital for a minimum of two years. Editor Chris Stone and Publisher Danny Lee will continue to lead Sports Illustrated at Meredith.


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Am I crazy? Did we fail to include the Charlie O'Brien-John Cangelosi ENOUGH ALREADY! cover from Sports Illustrated?


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