Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.25

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



The Amaysing Mets

Sports Illustrated, May 22, 1972.

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Ron Darling Tries Harder

GQ, August 1986.

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Roberto Alomar: Mets' All-Around Performer

Baseball Digest, July 2002.

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Remember 1969? How it looked on television

TV Guide, December 27, 1969.

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[G-Fafif]

Say Hey! And little else to be said.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

More like Baseball IN-Digest-ion! Am I right fellas?

[Benjamin Grimm]

That Willie Mays cover is my favorite of all the covers we'll be seeing. I expect it's the one cover that I'll never vote against throughout this competition.

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: More like Baseball IN-Digest-ion! Am I right fellas?

What a trio of banal stories ("Playtime is Fun!") listed in the cover lines. They should at least use some exclamation points like pro sports did. Or like Rod and Todd did.

[Guest 41Forever]

I can't figure out whether Ron Darling's pants are Sans a belt, or whether he's wearing a belt that matches the jacket and pants. or, is he not wearing a belt at all?

[Edgy MD]

No belt. That's an external waistband under the belt loops.



You can see under his right lapel (our left) that his pants are held up by suspenders.



You can also see that he was stiff as a brick when trying to be a model.

[Guest 41Forever]

Edgy MD wrote: No belt. That's an external waistband under the belt loops. You can see under his right lapel (our left) that his pants are held up by suspenders. You can also see that he was stiff as a brick when trying to be a model.

Good catch! I totally missed the suspenders.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Ron Darling looks like he needs to make a poop.

[Edgy MD]

What I'm sayin'.

[ashie62]

Say Hey!

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Rankings so far:

1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated)

2. The Amaysing Mets (Sports Illustrated)

3. Mets in the Stretch (Life)

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

5. Best Infield Ever? (Sports Illustrated)

6. Struggle at the Top (Sports Illustrated)

7. Dwight the Great (Sports Illustrated)

8. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated)

9. Late Innings (The New Yorker)

10. Pennant Pressure (Sports Illustrated)

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

12. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated)

13. Doctor K (Sports Illustrated)

14. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's)

15. Casey Stengel (New York Sunday News Magazine)

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

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

18. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

22. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

23. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

24. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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

[Centerfield]

I would say that's more a product of the competition than Willie having a great cover.



I mean, a washed up Mays itching his head...

[Edgy MD]

I like to think of it as Willie removing his helmet all suave-like, back to front, like Fred Astaire removing a top hat.

[Frayed Knot]

Seeing Ron, posing awkwardly in a set of duds he probably never wore again and in a picture he's probably embarrassed to look at today, is why I have no regrets on passing on the multiple fashion magazine cover

opportunities I had back in the '80s. Can you imagine how hard I'd try to hide those things today and how much I'd live in fear of one of youse guys dragging up a copy off of some obscure website?