Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.14

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



The Mets Against the World

Sports Illustrated, April 13, 1970.

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The Straw Man!

New York Sports, July 1984.

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Matinee Idol Mike Piazza

GQ, April 1999.

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Mets Staff Ranks Among the Best

Baseball Digest, July/August 2016.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Stinky round.



Went with another Strawberry failed Nickname.



For a closet-case, Piazza was pretty out, wasn't he?

[Edgy MD]

I said as much in the last thread.



Also, he was all about the black and white.



And that's where I went. Pretty cool of fellow Hall-of-Famer Lee Smith to do the article.

[G-Fafif]

New York Sports, like The National and Newsweek-era Inside Sports, should have existed a lot longer than it did. This was the premiere issue (and deserves to be in one of the after-the-chronology rounds).



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NYS and Darryl take the Strawberry cake here. Postmodern Baseball Digest looks like a bad dream; Mike needs a splash of orange and/or blue; the hat barrage is disquieting.

[Guest 41Forever]

I like the Mets Against the World. Seems odd that Koosman would be picked to be the face of the Mets as opposed to Seaver. But I love caps and it's a neat snapshot of all the styles at the time. Note the hasty transition cap from Pilot ot Brewer. I don't think that version, with the scrambled eggs, ever made it on a field in Milwaukee, but I could be wrong. I also didn't the the Angels had the halo as late as 1970.

[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 (The Sporting News)

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 Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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









This marks four wins in a row for Darryl Strawberry, who has been featured on five of the fourteen winning covers so far.



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