Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.19

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Revealed: Hodges' Secret Plan for Seaver & Koosman

Countrywide Sports, August 1970.

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Dwight Gooden: Majors' Premier Power Pitcher

Baseball Digest, June 1985.

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Subway Series!

Sports Illustrated, October 23, 2000.

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Jay Hook of the N.Y. Mets

SarcoScope, Summer 1962.

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

http://www.mbtn.net/?p=1516Here's the story behind SarcoScope. The headline which is difficult to read is Baseball's 1st Thermodynamic Pitcher.



This was in with a million other cut-up magazine pictures my dad kept in a giant file cabinet to use when and if he needed for illustrations in the pre-google Images world.

[Lefty Specialist]

Wow!



Piazza with a train running between his legs! Jay Hook with a boundary layer hanging over his head! Gil Hodges and his secret plans!



Countrywide Sports looks like the National Enquirer of sports....Revenge! Scandal! Secrets revealed! Fueds!

[whippoorwill]

I wonder what all that means?

The Jay Hook cover on the obscure magazine for me!



Though I'd love to know what Gil's secret plans were, and how they worked out

[MFS62]

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I wonder what all that means?

The Jay Hook cover on the obscure magazine for me!



Though I'd love to know what Gil's secret plans were, and how they worked out

[Edgy MD]

It's a strange day when Mike Piazza straddling a train is the third-gayest cover.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I like the picture of Gooden but text boxes on the Digest cover are a little too heavy



I'm considering disqualifying Piazza because that was a "fake news" cover: Not a "real" issue of SI but a special project intended to cash in on advertsing $$. May have skimped on content inside. Like the "Redbird" though -- miss them.



Countrywide -- LOL

[kcmets]

=MFS62 post_id=7492 time=1555505392 user_id=60]Jay Hook studied Engineering in College. Someone wrote that he could explain the Physics of why a baseball curves, but couldn't throw a curveball.

[Edgy MD]

SARCOSCOPE certainly got my vote. It's a very eighties look for an early 60s cover. But a lot of 80s design referenced the early sixties after retro nu-wavers like The B-52's rose.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I like the picture of Gooden but text boxes on the Digest cover are a little too heavy I'm considering disqualifying Piazza because that was a "fake news" cover: Not a "real" issue of SI but a special project intended to cash in on advertsing $$. May have skimped on content inside. Like the "Redbird" though -- miss them. Countrywide -- LOL

The Piazza WS SI was a regional cover issue. A Yankeee version featuring Jeter on the cover was also prepared. The inside was identical to that week's national SI, other than regional advertising, if any.



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National cover



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[G-Fafif]

Strong contenders all, each emitting a certain charm. I'll go with Doc inviting the rest of baseball to kiss his ass.

[MFS62]

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=MFS62 post_id=7492 time=1555505392 user_id=60]Jay Hook studied Engineering in College. Someone wrote that he could explain the Physics of why a baseball curves, but couldn't throw a curveball.

[Zvon]

I really like the photoshop work on the Piazza.



Sidenote: I've never heard of "Countywide Sports" magazine. And they knew Gil's secrets?



Mmmmmkay.

[Edgy MD]

COUNTRYWIDE. Don't forget that "R."



Speaking of which, there's a spelling error on that cover. Terrible copy-editing in journalism isn't just a latter-day thing.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

FUED. Good catch!

[Lefty Specialist]

I caught it on Wednesday but I guess my sarcasm was too subtle.

[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. Jay Hook of the N.Y. Mets (SarcoScope)

7. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

8. Doctor K (Sports Illustrated)

9. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's)

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

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

12. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

16. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

17. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

18. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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