Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.15

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Sports Heroes & Fashion Winners

Bazaar, May 1970.

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Who Do You Like?

Sports Illustrated, September 24, 1984.

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The Best Infield Ever?

Sports Illustrated, September 6, 1999.

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Up Close With The Closer Jeurys Familia

Latin Trends, July 2016.

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[G-Fafif]

I sort of want to get Jeurys a friend or three. He looks so lonely compared to all the couplings above him.



Sutcliffe ruins Gooden's cover, just as Sutcliffe ruined Gooden's potential first Cy Young.



What we are left with is an absolute clash of titans. Best fashion magazine cover ever vs. Best Infield Ever, hold the question mark. Art Shamsky and Lauren Hutton...goodness, what a world the 1969 Mets bequeathed to 1970. Heros [sic], indeed. Metsiana like this is why I've never bought into that "little brother" crap. The Mets were the big men on campus when I gained baseball awareness. Of course they get the girl. Of course they get the cover. This is what a New York newsstand looked like when the right team was the defending champion.



Oh, but that Sports Illustrated treatment, sportingly illustrating what we all knew in the late summer of 1999. Those four got to everything, including the cover of the national athletics magazine of record. It was where they belonged. Don't ya want them to jump off the page and take grounders? Messrs. Olerud, Alfonzo, Ordonez and Ventura make the black roadies of yore look as stylish as anything Bazaar ever featured.



Best Infield Ever? Perhaps best cover in the whole darn shootin' match (though we'll see).

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

3 good ones today.



I've been nostalgic for the 1999 Mets for a while. And the '74 A's!



I like the Gooden Sutcliffe cover too, a Met on the cover of SI really marked a new arrival for these guys and for me. I'd just arrived at college!



Holy crap that Bryce Harper's Bazaar cover is just shooting off sparks, isn't it? Don't like HEROS without an E but for a still portrait there is so much energy captured. If this were a contest judged by magazine-cover experts it would win



I'd like to read the Familia article but its not a great cover.

[whippoorwill]

Just try to guess which one I voted for

[Edgy MD]

Shamsky's hairy forearm kills me. And the fact that their open-mouthed smiles are generating laugh lines would never be allowed by a fashion magazine today. Plus, Ms. Hutton crushing her chin down toward her chest creates folds beneath.



That's just a wonderfully refreshing photo. Two people on the cover looking like people. Joyous engaging people. Radical.



That's my vote. How many Mets did they go down the line on before they got to Sham?

[HahnSolo]

First glance I had no idea that was Lauren Hutton.



The Gooden cover at the time killed me because it came at a point where the realization that the division was out of reach hit me hard. I also realized that despite Doc's great second half, Sutcliffe was winning the CY; it also bothered the shit out of me that they posed for that pic in Wrigley, which was a Met house of horrors in '84.



Went with Best Infield Ever, despite the presence of the all-blacks, which I hate.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I love the greatest infield cover, but damn, that Bazaar cover is so bizarre, it got my vote. I didn't even recognize the recognizable hero but hairy forearms (and caterpillar brows!) be damned, Sham looks like a star. Bonus points for a national/non-sports cover.

[kcmets]

Best. Infield. Ever.



(All threads lead to Rey Ordoñez. And, uh, Vic's ass..)

[whippoorwill]

As they should

[dgwphotography]

The Best Infield Ever cover, despite those horrid black jerseys.



Makes me long for the days of the I Hate Rey Ordonez page...

[batmagadanleadoff]

I went with Shamsky and Hutton on Bazaar in what's looking like a lost cause Jill Stein-type vote. Because I fucking love it when a Met who might not even be the 10th best player on his team makes the cover of a national magazine. This could've only happened in 1970, with the Mets, riding high from the previous year's miracle, were still the darlings of the whole wide world. The Best Infield cover surely has the gravitas over Bazaar. And John Olerud is on my very short list of all time favorite Mets. But points deducted for those hideous black things they're wearing, which never get better with age. And more points deducted for Rey Ordonez, who, I'll give him credit, at least belongs on a cover that's about defense only. So no one's trying to work into the bargain that he is or was also one of the best shortstops period. Because he fucking sucked the life out of that team.

[whippoorwill]

Those black jerseys looked damn good on some of them.



But maybe not on some fans.

[Edgy MD]

The infield's clowning pose feels more like SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS. A story about good defense should include a photo about good defense. What's a more exciting photographic subject? Also, I can't for the life of me figure out what they think the underscoring in that title font is bringing to the table.



I seem to remember SI doing a similar story about the 1982 Cardinal infield. What I liked about them is they not only featured Hernandez, Herr, Oberkfell, and Smith, but utility infielder Mike Ramsey, which I think was a good thing to include in the story.



I guess the fifth infielder for the 1999 Mets would have been Luis Lopez, but he played far less than Ramsey.

[kcmets]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=6890 time=1554927506 user_id=68]he fucking sucked the life out of that team.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=6890 time=1554927506 user_id=68]he fucking sucked the life out of that team.

[kcmets]

Just funnin' with ya, grumpy.

[Edgy MD]

Don't be a fart!

Vote for Lauren and Art!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Don't be a fuckin' moron

Vote for Art n' Lauren!

[Lefty Specialist]

Sorry Bazaar, but it's 'Sports Heroes', not 'Sports Heros'. I nitpick, but that stuff bugs me. Sports Heros are sold at Mamas of Corona.



Best Infield Ever was also one of my Favorite Magazine Covers Ever. Black unis and all.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Rankings so far:

1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated)

2. Mets in the Stretch (Life)

3. Best Infield Ever? (Sports Illustrated)

4. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated)

5. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

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

7. Darryl Strawberry: The Mets' Super Sophmore is the Apple of New York's Eye (The Sporting News)

8. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

12. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

13. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

14. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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