Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Vote for the cover that you like the best. Voting will run for seven days.



Mets in the Stretch

Life, September 26, 1969.

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How Baseball Wives See Those Fat Salaries

Parade Magazine, May 15, 1977.

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HoJo Makes His Mark

Baseball Digest, November 1989.

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Opening Day!

Next Stop, April 2011.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

wtf

[Guest 41Forever]

I think the Wright photo was from someone with a point and shoot in the stands, running down to the first row to snap the photo before the ushers grabbed them by the collar and ran them out of there!

[whippoorwill]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: wtf

lol

[whippoorwill]

I love Nancy's outfit but I hate her hair here. I do especially love the Dr Scholl sandals. My sister and I were nuts about them! They were pretty ouchy though if you happened to misstep in them.





Voting for Jerry K

[whippoorwill]

BTW, as a fellow wife, I'll bet the baseball wives loved the fat salaries. A very puzzling article idea.

[Edgy MD]

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I love Nancy's outfit but I hate her hair here.

[Frayed Knot]

'How Baseball Wives See Those Fat Salaries' ... or, as today's player wives would call that kind of loot: tip money.

[Edgy MD]

A bonus in that HoJo cover is Keith playing Penis Bat in the background.

[Centerfield]

Koos. Though I do love Wright's swing, the photo is kinda shitty.

[A Boy Named Seo]

What is NEXTSTOP? Some public transportation monthly? I tend to want to give an extra point to an outfit that is not a baseball or sports rag, so LIFE wins it narrowly over HoJo. If HoJo wasn't taking that awkward, fooled-on-the-pitch, dribbler-foul-down-the-third-base-line swing, I mighta voted for him.

[Edgy MD]

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Koos. Though I do love Wright's swing, the photo is kinda shitty.

[kcmets]

I never heard of NEXTSTOP either. Funny, I saw HoJo going with the pitch and

hitting a laced grounder all the way to the wall for a stand up double. I'm the lone

HoJo vote so far.

[Edgy MD]

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I never heard of NEXTSTOP either. Funny, I saw HoJo going with the pitch and

hitting a laced grounder all the way to the wall for a stand up double. I'm the lone

HoJo vote so far.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: =Centerfield post_id=5210 time=1553700104 user_id=65] Koos. Though I do love Wright's swing, the photo is kinda shitty.

HoJo's, on the other hand, is a lousy one-handed flail at the curveball away. Yay, HoJo! Make that mark!!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Kooz and the Miracle Mets on the cover of America's most widely read general interest mag during its peak era. Hard to top that. Looks like it's gonna be Kooz Life over the Seaver family on Parade in a landslide. This might be the first time Kooz out-polled Seaver in anything. Not even Nancy could push Seaver over the top here.

[whippoorwill]

Edgy MD wrote: =whippoorwill post_id=5184 time=1553689558 user_id=79] I love Nancy's outfit but I hate her hair here.

Yeah, that's a preview of her solid state RedWife hair.



But the mom jeans... grrrrrr-ow!

[G-Fafif]

http://www.nextstopmagazine.com/NextStop magazine seems to cover Eastern Long Island mostly -- and seems to have not updated its online content all that much since 2015.

[G-Fafif]

The Life of the party for this round. Time and Life in the same month. These Mets were big news (and based in New York).



Parade makes the spouses sound very greedy and grubby, eyeing those "fat salaries". Maybe that's where Dick Young to the idea to drag Nancy Seaver and Ruth Ryan into his caustic coverage.



The comment on Keith's on-deck accoutrement reminds me that when Mex guested on Robert Klein's short-lived USA Network talk show in the '86-'87 offseason, the host asked the athlete what the deal was with jocks "buffing their testicles" after coming out of the shower, making that weird towel between the legs motion to illustrate his question.



Keith chuckled uncomfortably.

[dgwphotography]

Life is the best of a bad lot. The crooked horizon ruins what is otherwise an excellent cover.

[Edgy MD]

The saturation level also seems very un-LIFE-like.

[Zvon]

This is a no-brainer for me because I have a copy of the Life Kooz cover signed by the 1969 Mets. It holds a place in my heart.



Everyone except Seaver. He was the only one who didn't appear at this card show many years ago.

Hey, do you think if I mailed it to Tom he'd sign it and mail it back? I've read about folks who have done thing type of thing but I've always felt like something like that was an imposition.



I've got Agee's autograph on it and that makes it priceless to me.

[Fman99]

Love the Kooz action shot.

[Edgy MD]

It's cool how the the torn-away part of the address label on the front of the magazine is right under his foot, as if his spikes are tearing away at it.

[whippoorwill]

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Life is the best of a bad lot. The crooked horizon ruins what is otherwise an excellent cover.

[Edgy MD]

It's funny how third base is mostly in focus, and you can't really spot how deep on the horizon it's supposed to be.



I mean, we know how a field is laid out and where third base is relative to the pitcher. But keep staring at that base long enough, and it'll start to look like somebody just frisbee'd it through his legs, or it just dropped out of his buttocks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Rankings so far:

1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated)

2. Mets in the Stretch (Life)

3. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated)

4. Tom Seaver & The Art Of Pitching (Sport Magazine)

5. Big Gun: Dave Kingman (The Sporting News)

6. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

7. The Baseball Battle for New York (Sports Illustrated)