Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.27

[Benjamin Grimm]

http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/magazines/MCD.png>



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



The Real Tom Seaver by Bud Harrelson

Sport Magazine, August 1972.

http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/magazines/19720800_SPORT.jpg>





Gary Carter: Pennant-Bound At Last?

Baseball Digest, September 1986.

http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/magazines/19860900_BD.jpg>





Meet the Mets

The Sporting News, March 11, 2005.

http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/magazines/20050311_TSN.jpg>





Kiss the Past Goodby

New York Sunday News Magazine, April 4, 1982.

http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/magazines/19820404_SUNDAYNEWS.jpg>

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

such an odd spelling of goodbye. I know it was once more common, apparently it was in '82, but looks so strange on a headline.



I don't like the spring training jerseys on the SN cover, nor do I like that they capitalize DUKE as though its an acronym; that's just sloppy. Plus wtf with Joe Buck.



If it's really September of 1986, I don't need to be teased with the question of whether Gary Carter will make the playoffs.



I guess this means Seaver wins again. Can't imagine that Harrelson said anything bad about him though. Should gotten Chico Escuela to write it.

[Edgy MD]

I went with Foster. Never called on to be the personality of the Reds, even at the times he was their best player, he came to New York as the big cheese only to reveal that he didn't seem to have much more of a personality than Kingman. Yet here he is, closing his eye and ... shooting a baseball?



Whatever. He's acting funny and comfortable and engaging which is captures exactly 8% of his Mets tenure.



And speaking of percentages, how about NEW YORK SUNDAY NEWS MAGAZINE letting their cover subject obscure 80% of their masthead? "Hey, if they're trying to read the masthead, that means they already bought the paper!"



It also gets my sympathy, as I too spent my college freshman year pleading, "Please don't call me 'genius'."

[Lefty Specialist]

A Seaver fielding picture is weird, as is that Foster cover.



Beltran and Pedro make me want to root for those 2005 Mets, though. Beltran had a nice smile; he didn't use it enough.

[Guest 41Forever]

This is a tough one. It's always tough to beat Seaver. But I love Carter, and that photo. I remember buying that issue while at college in Missouri. Those warm-up jackets are pretty sweet.

[Edgy MD]

Also, if your cover line caption says "Kiss the past good-by," you'd think it would go with a shot of Foster blowing a kiss or something.



What you need here is a phrase that puns on the word "shoot" or "shot."

[G-Fafif]

When in doubt, Seaver. It never occurred to me, when I bought this magazine as a kid and later when I decided I had to have it again and plucked it off eBay, that he was fielding and not pitching. That makes this a little different from other Tom in Action shots, thus making it more appealing.



I'd love to love Pedro and Carlos getting all that TSN attention, but as with the New York cover earlier, geez, those Spring Training togs are dreadful. "Go inside and change into your actual Mets uniforms."



Ah, Gary, cooperating with the photographer as always.



"Goodby" looks like Nicholas Nickelby, and that doesn't rhyme with goodbye.

[kcmets]

I went with Camera Carter, only decent BD cover we've seen so far.

[Benjamin Grimm]

http://leaptoad.com/mets/covers/images/magazines/1.27w.png>



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. The Real Tom Seaver by Bud Harrelson (Sport Magazine)

19. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine)

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

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

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

23. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker)

24. Armed Force (Sports Illustrated)

25. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

26. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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