Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.13

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



How Jerry Koosman Won His Biggest Battle

All-Star Sports, April 1970.

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Darryl Strawberry: The Mets' Super Sophmore is the Apple of New York's Eye

The Sporting News, May 21, 1984.

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Trade of the Century

Sports Illustrated, May 25, 1998.

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Now That's Funny!

Sports Illustrated for Kids, May 2016.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Hm

[G-Fafif]

The Piazza cover isn't really a Met cover. It chronicled his trade from the Dodgers to the Marlins and hit the street before the Mets got involved. However, it is Met in spirit, not just for the immediate followup to the Trade of the Century, but because at the now defunct Roosevelt Field outpost of the Mets Clubhouse Store, some bright manager pasted that picture of Mike under a Mets cap to lure you inside. The sign stayed in place throughout the 1998 season, if I recall correctly.



All-Star Sports truly has the pulse of the sporting nation in the spring of 1970 (Richie Allen and Nate Thurmond, such malcontents, not like that proud Stan Mikita). Props to them for going with Koosman over Seaver if just for mixing things up. Boog appears to be in for a brushback.



Darryl's plenty contemplative for a Super Sophomore. He was certainly the Apple of my eye.



I get the Bobby V treatment for Grandy and Thor (I needed to read the cutline to realize that was Curtis), but isn't Mr. Met goofy enough without mustache and glasses?



An eclectic batch, to be sure.



For attempting to indoctrinate a nation of children into the charms of the Madcap Mets, I'll go with SI Kids, which I'm not sure I knew was still a thing as recently as 2016.

[whippoorwill]

Mr Met looks like Howard Sprague.



Dad got the Sporting News for years. I kinda remember that sweet Darryl cover



Koos/Boog for me

[Lefty Specialist]

I think Jerry Koosman's biggest battle was with the IRS, as he spent 6 months as a guest of the federal government for tax evasion.



Straw looks like he's contemplating his choice of coke dealers. Piazza looks pissed. And The SI cover is too mishmoshy.



Went with Straw.

[whippoorwill]

lol Straw comment

[Edgy MD]

I went with #3. I like the fact that most Piazza magazine cover shoots could double as a shoot for a Hello Mr. cover, and everybody was OK with that.



Also, the sidebars about David Wells and Dennis Rodman underscore the strange era of sports-star-as-self-promoting-out-control-tabloid subject, before Deadspin and TMZ made such characters ubiquitous and banal. All we need is a little John Daly to round out the crew.

[dgwphotography]

I went with Piazza, I just love that image of him.



All-Star Sports? At first glance, I thought that was a cover of Tiger Beat...

[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. The Straw That Stirs The Mets (Sports Illustrated)

6. Darryl Strawberry: The Mets' Super Sophmore is the Apple of New York's Eye

7. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

11. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

12. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

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