Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Pennant Pressure

Sports Illustrated, September 7, 1970.

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Keith Hernandez Just Wants To Play

GQ, April 1986.

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Twin Bill

The New Yorker, October 30, 2000.

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Tug McGraw: Maturity at Last?

The Sporting News, April 26, 1969.

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[Edgy MD]

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Wow, she does have smaller hands than President Trump.

[A Boy Named Seo]

The perspective on the Harrelson cover looks kinda cool, but the shoulder is in the way of what looks like a decent shot.

[seawolf17]

These are all pretty terrible. Keith by default.

[Guest 41Forever]

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These are all pretty terrible. Keith by default.

[Edgy MD]

Still, there's a lot more narrative there — and important historical narrative — then you'll ever get out of Keith's goofy yacht club outfit.

[G-Fafif]

Harrelson knocks down Rose, knocks off competition.

[kcmets]

Went with Bud, but only by a 'stache hair.

[Edgy MD]

I will say that's a pretty eighties lineup Keith Hernandez is anchoring there: Joe Klein, Ward Just and Kenneth Turan.

[seawolf17]

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Harrelson knocks down Rose, knocks off competition.

[batmagadanleadoff]

"Maturity at Last?" Jeez, Tug looks like a toothless old geezer on that cover. Hey --wasn't that a question better suited for the Mets?

[G-Fafif]

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Harrelson knocks down Rose, knocks off competition.

[Lefty Specialist]

Looked like Harrelson was about to drop a baseball on Rose's crotch. In retrospect, he should have.



But Keith is just so flamboyantly.......Keith.

[Edgy MD]

I think that was short, surly, clean-shaven Joe Morgan, breaking for first in a futile effort to beat the double-play.

[G-Fafif]

Joe Morgan, 1970 Houston Astro?

[Edgy MD]

I'm mentally in 1973.

[G-Fafif]

Pennant pressure takes its toll on all of us.

[dgwphotography]

My best guess is that the Harrelson cover was shot during the top of the ninth inning on August 22. That's Bobby Tolan running to first, and Rose was just out, scored 5-6 in the scorebook. This isn't the only time that Rose was out on an FC at second in that series, but it is the only time that there was a runner ahead of him at third base, which explains Buddy's looking toward third.



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[MFS62]

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My best guess is that the Harrelson cover was shot during the top of the ninth inning on August 22. That's Bobby Tolan running to first, and Rose was just out, scored 5-6 in the scorebook. This isn't the only time that Rose was out on an FC at second in that series, but it is the only time that there was a runner ahead of him at third base, which explains Buddy's looking toward third.

[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. Dwight the Great (Sports Illustrated)

5. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated)

6. Late Innings (The New Yorker)

7. Pennant Pressure (Sports Illustrated)

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

9. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

10. Doctor K (Sports Illustrated)

11. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's)

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

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

14. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

18. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

19. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

20. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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