Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.17

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



The Mets - One Season Wonders… Or For Real?

Pro Sports, May 1970.

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The Mets' Dwight Gooden: A Pennant For An Encore?

Sport Magazine, April 1985.

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Mets' "Dynamic Duo"

Baseball Digest, November 1999.

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Late Innings

The New Yorker, September 26, 2016.

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[dgwphotography]

As much as I love the classic Doc cover, I love the New Yorker cartoon even more.

[Edgy MD]

Gooden does seem to have an impossibly long right arm, but that New Yorker cover is a resounding argument for art over clutter.

[Centerfield]

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As much as I love the classic Doc cover, I love the New Yorker cartoon even more.

[kcmets]

The scale or something is weird (I suppose intentionally) with The New

Yorker one but went with it anyway.

[whippoorwill]

Tommie of course

[Edgy MD]

That's a weird text box on Pro Sports. It's like one of the Pirates (and I feel comfortable guessing that it was Richie Hebner) snuck up behind Agee and threw a ping-pong table at him while he was batting.



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'd like to read about the violent world of hockey's headhunters

[Edgy MD]

It may look like a sudden, spur-of-the-moment thing. But when one hatchet man goes after another in an orgy of stick-swinging, chances are the feud's been simmering for years, waiting to explode!



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Also, while the cover delivers on its promise of some red-hot Harrelson action, it also throws in a tasty side-helping of Otis.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Is Campy doing an Eddie Gaedel imitation?



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[G-Fafif]

Thor is a thing of beauty.



Why does Dynamic Duo require quote marks?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Fascinating story of HOCKEY'S HEADHUNTERS.



Maki and Green were both charged with assault by the NHL but the charges were dropped.



Maki went on to being one of the first stars of the expansion Vancouver Canucks franchise but got brain cancer and died at age 29. The Canucks mothballed his number 11 only to re-issue it for Mark Messier over the objections of the Maki family, sorta like how the Mets dissed Willie Mays and Joan Payson to keep Robbie Cano happy.



Green returned to the NHL and WHA and played till 1979, later became head coach of the Edmonton Oilers.

[Edgy MD]

It's amazing how that writing hovers between responsible journalism and adventure pulp magazine fare.

[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. Late Innings (The New Yorker)

6. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

7. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's)

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

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

10. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

14. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

15. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

16. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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