Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.09

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Tom Seaver: Prince Valiant

The Sporting News, October 11, 1969.

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Lee Mazzilli: Not Just A Pretty Face

The Sporting News, August 16, 1980.

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Mona Lisa

The New Yorker, June 3, 1991.

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Viva Los Mets

New York Times Magazine, July 31, 2015.

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[whippoorwill]

I wonder if that's the Lee Mazzilli article that was astonished about his $100,000 mortgage for a house in Syosset. I remember reading that covertly (I was married by then) in a Thrift Drug in State College.

[kcmets]

Vote for Pedro!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Is the Pedro cover accidentally out of order? It's from 2005, not 2015.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Three good portraits and a famous painting.



The NYT cover is really striking but "Los Mets" was a bullshit story. It just happened to be the narrative that attached itself to a one of those periods where the Wilpons try to disprove what idiots they are by doing stupid things more conspicuously than usual.



Plus the black hat looks so bad.



I'm gonna go with hard-looking Lee over thoughtful Seav

[Edgy MD]

This is a pretty good field.



Notice Mona Lisa rocking Randy Randy Myers' camouflage undershirt two years after Myers has been shipped out.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Is the Pedro cover accidentally out of order? It's from 2005, not 2015.

[Guest 41Forever]

Went with the Prince! Don't know if I've ever seen that one.

[G-Fafif]

Four pretty faces. Went with Mona Lisa, the only player with the confidence to rock the green sleeves. Really loved that cover when it came out, still love it. Represents, to me, the last gasp of that era when the Mets were the de facto baseball team to think of when somebody needed one.



I'm suspicious of "people forget" as a preface because I don't know that people forget something as much as it just doesn't come up all that often, but I'm willing to say people forget what a huge deal it was to have Pedro Martinez in a Mets uniform in 2005 (if not 2015). Face of the franchise for a year and change -- and boy did things change once he came around. Viva Los Mets...even if the whole thing was a bit of a contrivance.



Tom and Mazz appear to be eyeing each other. Pitcher vs. Hitter, sizing each other up across the span of a decade.

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm a sucker for New Yorker covers. Mona it is.

[Edgy MD]

I'm generally down on shots of guys swinging weighted bats in the on-deck circle. It jacks up their muscles nicely, but their faces look so half-hearted.

[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. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

7. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

8. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

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