Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.11

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Tom Seaver: Baseball Digest's Player of the Year

Baseball Digest, November 30, 1969.

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Darryl Strawberry: No Big Apple Hype - He's "The Franchise"

Inside Sports, March 1984.

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What's Up, Doc?

Sports Illustrated, March 22, 1993.

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Straight Fire

Sports Illustrated, March 2016.

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[Guest 41Forever]

I learned yesterday only two Mets have been Baseball Digest's Player of the Year -- Seaver and Gooden. The list I saw started in 1969, so I don't know if Seaver was the first, or the list I saw on the semi-reliable website is incomplete.



I always liked the Stark illustrations.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

SI has developed a credibility problem with me by now. Every cover looks suspiciously "localized" for newsstand sales and therefore comes off as inauthentic to me.

[whippoorwill]

Darryl

[Theoldmole]

Tom Seaver, our player for the ages.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That Baseball Digest cover represents a nice event, but it isn't visually appealing. I like the photo of Darryl, but not the school-bus orange frame around it. And the "Straight Fire" cover is too boilerplate. So I voted for Doc.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=41Forever post_id=6187 time=1554293690 user_id=69]
I learned yesterday only two Mets have been Baseball Digest's Player of the Year -- Seaver and Gooden. The list I saw started in 1969, so I don't know if Seaver was the first, or the list I saw on the semi-reliable website is incomplete.

[Edgy MD]

I chose "Seaver, Illustrated" over "Matt Harvey Taking a Shit."

[Guest 41Forever]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=6209 time=1554304454 user_id=68]
=41Forever post_id=6187 time=1554293690 user_id=69]
I learned yesterday only two Mets have been Baseball Digest's Player of the Year -- Seaver and Gooden. The list I saw started in 1969, so I don't know if Seaver was the first, or the list I saw on the semi-reliable website is incomplete.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=41Forever post_id=6212 time=1554305303 user_id=69]
=batmagadanleadoff post_id=6209 time=1554304454 user_id=68]
=41Forever post_id=6187 time=1554293690 user_id=69]
I learned yesterday only two Mets have been Baseball Digest's Player of the Year -- Seaver and Gooden. The list I saw started in 1969, so I don't know if Seaver was the first, or the list I saw on the semi-reliable website is incomplete.

[dgwphotography]

Um, is Doc wearing his Rookie Spring Training #64?

[kcmets]

None of these are terribly inspiring, went with BD Seaver.

[Centerfield]

What I'm learning is that there is about a 15 year period in my life where I paid attention to sports magazine covers.

[Benjamin Grimm]

=dgwphotography post_id=6217 time=1554308483 user_id=78]
Um, is Doc wearing his Rookie Spring Training #64?

[Edgy MD]

I don't, but that shot sure seems to capture the dawn of the Old-Before-His-Time Gooden Face.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: =dgwphotography post_id=6217 time=1554308483 user_id=78] Um, is Doc wearing his Rookie Spring Training #64?

Now that you mention it, I seem to remember him going back to 64 one spring to try to regain his youthful magic, or something like that.



Does anyone else recall this?

[G-Fafif]

Not the most splashy bunch. I was glad to see Doc still rated the cover, but his No. 64 phase was indicative that the end was encroaching. Strawberry's not "the Franchise," even though it's an attractive enough portrayal if a little generic (I don't believe IS shot this themselves). Seaver's been better served than in that drawing. The Big Three of 2016 reminds me of how Ron Darling gets details wrong. When things were going awry with Met pitchers who weren't Harvey, deGrom or Familia, he'd throw shade at that the way SI put all the Mets' starters on their cover -- which they didn't. It was these guys after each had excelled en route to the World Series.



It was nice to see the Mets get the Northeast season preview cover for a change. I'll take it over Darryl, though I'm pleased to see Inside Sports represented. It was no longer in its initial golden age of Newsweek's ownership by 1984, but the magazine was a welcome presence for however long it lasted.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Anyone care to break this tie???

[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. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

5. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

6. Darryl Strawberry: No Big Apple Hype (Inside Sports)

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

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

9. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

10. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

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