Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.28

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



The Many Faces of Tom Seaver

Baseball Digest, June 1973.

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Let's Go, Mets!

New York Magazine, September 29, 1986.

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El Nuevo Rostro de los Mets

Sports Illustrated Latino, Primavera 2005.

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Terrific! Baseball, Tom & Billy Are Back!

New York Sports, May 1983.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

These are all pretty bad. I went with the Baseball Digest cover because it has the best photo. The Carter cover is too dark, and the Beltran and the 1983 Seaver covers are both a bit weird.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I kinda like the darkness of the Carter shot. It's a night game. New York mag had a city nightlife slant, it established the brand and story as one.

[Edgy MD]

Like the Beltran cover isn't too dark? The shadows totally change the shape of his face. I stare at it going, "I guess I'm supposed to recognize this guy as Carlos Beltran, but I'm not seeing it.



Also, Spring Training jerseys are almost always going to lose. None moreso than Randolph/Manuel-era Spring Training jerseys.



I went with the Carter cover too. The three hosed Philadelphia Phillie legs coming out of his crotch subtly makes it look like he has some massive alien virility.

[MFS62]

Any cover that mentions two all-time greats as well as Bobby Grich and Milt Pappas gets my vote, especially against those other three.

If the winning cover ends up having a picture of Gary Carter on it, wherever he is O'Henry will be smiling.



Later

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[G-Fafif]

I like that Seaver and Carter are both cocked and loaded. I also like that Seaver in the New York Sports cover is wearing a jersey he'll never wear in actual competition, as the home racing stripes debuted on his back 4/5/1983. Cooperative of him to pose. Carlos looks happier to be here. Such a handsome man, yet seems to get dropped in the middle of some wanting covers.



I've always loved that New York Mag cover. Great story, too, in which Joe Klein refers to the prospective Mets-Red Sox clash as a Subway Series of the Soul. Hard to believe the 1986 Mets didn't nab a cover of this nature in their hometown's weekly until September. Felt overdue by then. Feels timeless now.

[stevejrogers]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I kinda like the darkness of the Carter shot. It's a night game. New York mag had a city nightlife slant, it established the brand and story as one.

Though, unless for some expensive dinner in a hotel ballroom or banquet hall, one wouldn't expect the cover subject to be enjoying said city nightlife!

[stevejrogers]

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I also like that Seaver in the New York Sports cover is wearing a jersey he'll never wear in actual competition, as the home racing stripes debuted on his back 4/5/1983. Cooperative of him to pose.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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=G-Fafif post_id=8904 time=1556814246 user_id=55]
I also like that Seaver in the New York Sports cover is wearing a jersey he'll never wear in actual competition, as the home racing stripes debuted on his back 4/5/1983. Cooperative of him to pose.

[stevejrogers]

AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87)

[batmagadanleadoff]

=stevejrogers post_id=8924 time=1556819898 user_id=57]
AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87)

[stevejrogers]

You can even find a card released by one of the major companies of Seaver in the aformentioned uniform styles!

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[stevejrogers]

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=stevejrogers post_id=8924 time=1556819898 user_id=57]
AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87)

[batmagadanleadoff]

You can even find a card released by one of the major companies of Seaver in the aformentioned uniform styles! https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/1512/1512-78Fr.jpg> https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/13211/13211-DE6Fr.jpg>

Seaver posed for a whole slew of things in the discontinued two button Mets home pullover jerseys prior to the start of the '83 regular season. The most prominent was for Sportschannel's ad campaigns, featuring Seaver on large posters that hung in NYC's subways for many months, well into the regular season. If I remember correctly that ad campaign had three different posters --- the Seaver, one with Darryl Dawkins and the third with a core member of the dynasty era Islanders.

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[batmagadanleadoff]

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=batmagadanleadoff post_id=8925 time=1556820284 user_id=68]
=stevejrogers post_id=8924 time=1556819898 user_id=57]
AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87)

[stevejrogers]

AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87) So then what are you referring to when you write about Seaver wearing the '87 roads during ST ''87? Curious here. EXTENDED! I.e. during the summer I thought was where Seaver was doing his attempt. Not in the actual March camp. Oh I see. Summer Spring training.

When is extended Spring Training usually then? I know that is a genuine thing, still to this day.



And FWIW, Seaver ended the attempt literally on the second day of summer!



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[batmagadanleadoff]

AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87) So then what are you referring to when you write about Seaver wearing the '87 roads during ST ''87? Curious here. EXTENDED! I.e. during the summer I thought was where Seaver was doing his attempt. Not in the actual March camp. Oh I see. Summer Spring training. When is extended Spring Training usually then? I know that is a genuine thing, still to this day. And FWIW, Seaver ended the attempt literally on the second day of summer! https://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/6/22/4455088/this-date-mets-history-june-22-tom-seaver-retireshttps://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/6/22/4455088/this-date-mets-history-june-22-tom-seaver-retires

I dunno. ST, to me, is what happens down south before the start of the regular season.

[batmagadanleadoff]

AFAIK the Mets have worn the specific year's BP jerseys as their ST garb since around that time (84-87) So then what are you referring to when you write about Seaver wearing the '87 roads during ST ''87? Curious here. EXTENDED! I.e. during the summer I thought was where Seaver was doing his attempt. Not in the actual March camp. Oh I see. Summer Spring training. When is extended Spring Training usually then? I know that is a genuine thing, still to this day. And FWIW, Seaver ended the attempt literally on the second day of summer! https://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/6/22/4455088/this-date-mets-history-june-22-tom-seaver-retireshttps://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/6/22/4455088/this-date-mets-history-june-22-tom-seaver-retires I dunno. ST, to me, is what happens down south before the start of the regular season.

Extended ST ends in the late Spring, when some of those A ball and short season leagues start, I think.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Which means that if Seaver was stilll working out in Florida at the Mers facility after the start of the regular MLB season, he might've worked out in the Mers '87 roads. You were right the first time around but .mixed me up a bit when you threw in the word Summer.

[whippoorwill]

I remember that Baseball Digest. But I didn't vote for it

[batmagadanleadoff]

That's a weird shot of Seaver on the '83 mag. I always thought it strange to see him in that style uni that he'd never wear in an actual game. His facial expression is unusual to my eyes, given my expectation of what Seaver looks like, or is supposed to look like.



And it looks like Seaver's wearing a tiara.

[G-Fafif]

Seaver stuck with the big club throughout his two-week June comeback attempt, so there would have been no detour to Florida.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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Seaver stuck with the big club throughout his two-week June comeback attempt, so there would have been no detour to Florida.

[G-Fafif]

He was home in Connecticut thinking his career was colluded into retirement. The Mets didn't sign him until early June.

[Edgy MD]

Doubleday: "NO COLLUSION!!"

[kcmets]

Went with New York.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Daily News -- June 23, 1987





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[G-Fafif]

The Daily News was quite the stickler for "goodby".



June 1, 1987: The News breaks the story that the Mets were about to sign Tom (no photo available). June 6 he's in uniform for the first time since 1983, posing on the dugout steps with Doc Gooden, who returned to action to cheers the night before. Both of them were smiling.



Less than three months later, Dick Young dropped dead.

[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. 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. Let's Go Mets! (New York)

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