Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Struggle at the Top

Sports Illustrated, June 21, 1971.

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Darryl Strawberry

Baseball Digest, May 1986.

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Sluggers On Slugging

The Sporting News, April 23, 2001.

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The Case For Willie To Replace Casey

Sport World, October 1964.

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Dwight Gooden: Best Young Pitcher In Baseball History?

Boys' Life, September 1986.

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[HahnSolo]

Did Baseball Digest have like no budget for licensing cover photographs? Most of the ones in this contest have been pretty lousy.

[HahnSolo]

I went with the Grote action shot.

[Edgy MD]

He isn't even out of the crouch, yet, and his mask is nowhere to be seen.



That's a quick-acting receiver. Grote puts the "cat" in catcher.

[dgwphotography]

As Johnny Bench once said when asked who was the better defensive catcher, "If we were on the same team, I'd be playing third base"

[Lefty Specialist]

Grote gets my vote. Although I'd love to hear the case for Willie Mays replacing Casey Stengel.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Grote to the max

[kcmets]

As Johnny Bench once said when asked who was the better defensive catcher, "If we were on the same team, I'd be playing third base"

Great line.

[Edgy MD]

That wasn't the only 1964 Sport World Cover that Casey and Willie shared:



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[Benjamin Grimm]

Is Willie Mays worth $105,000? Sheesh!

[A Boy Named Seo]

What's with that Sporting News sub-title? Skippy?? Never seen that Boys Life one before. Imagine being like 8 years old and the mail comes and in one issue you get to see the Boy Scouts photo winners and read about Dwight Gooden! Close call, but I'm going Grote.

[MFS62]

I went with Sport World for the interesting (and wrong) premise.

It reminded me of the days when the Mets were still trying to sell their fans on nostalgia (old guys/ old NY teams) when there weren't any exciting young guys (except Ron Hunt) emerging.

Speaking of that, were there any voting-worthy covers of Ron Hunt?

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

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I went with Sport World for the interesting (and wrong) premise.

It reminded me of the days when the Mets were still trying to sell their fans on nostalgia (old guys/ old NY teams) when there weren't any exciting young guys (except Ron Hunt) emerging.

Speaking of that, were there any voting-worthy covers of Ron Hunt?

Later

[MFS62]

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As far as I know, Ron Hunt never appeared on the cover of a national magazine as a Met.

[G-Fafif]

Sport World loves to stir that pot. But no struggle here choosing Grote.

[Edgy MD]

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=MFS62 post_id=8217 time=1556211854 user_id=60]
I went with Sport World for the interesting (and wrong) premise.

It reminded me of the days when the Mets were still trying to sell their fans on nostalgia (old guys/ old NY teams) when there weren't any exciting young guys (except Ron Hunt) emerging.

Speaking of that, were there any voting-worthy covers of Ron Hunt?

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

This is where this gets very subjective. I'm a huge Sid Fernandez fan, but I'd never in a million years figure Sid to be one of the top 10 all time Mets. By that list, Sid was a greater Met than Piazza. But I love that Gary Carter didn't even make that top 24 list. Confirms a lot of my thoughts on Carter the Met.

Edited April 25, 2019 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that's why I chose the quick and dirty list. It may not be right, but it's objective.



I was able to find some covers with Fernandez, presumably upcoming in the derby, so that leads next to ... Leiter?



Number one Met of 1998, but ... was he a cover boy?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, that's why I chose the quick and dirty list. It may not be right, but it's objective. I was able to find some covers with Fernandez, presumably upcoming in the derby, so that leads next to ... Leiter?

Beat me to it. I just recalled this cover.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, that's why I chose the quick and dirty list. It may not be right, but it's objective. I was able to find some covers with Fernandez, presumably upcoming in the derby, so that leads next to ... Leiter? Number one Met of 1998, but ... was he a cover boy?

That TV Guide (set of four) that already appeared in the derby.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Sid surprised me, too. Was trying to think of a star Fernandez I'd spaced, but Tony wasn't it.

[Edgy MD]

So ... Mookie?

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Rankings so far:

1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated)

2. Mets in the Stretch (Life)

3. Dr. K: Baseball's Hottest Pitcher (Time)

4. Best Infield Ever? (Sports Illustrated)

5. Struggle at the Top (Sports Illustrated)

6. Dwight the Great (Sports Illustrated)

7. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated)

8. Late Innings (The New Yorker)

9. Pennant Pressure (Sports Illustrated)

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

11. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

12. Doctor K (Sports Illustrated)

13. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's)

14. Casey Stengel (New York Sunday News Magazine)

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

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

17. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

21. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

22. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

23. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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