Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.29

[Benjamin Grimm]

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



Willie Mays

Black Sports, June 1973.

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Darryl Strawberry: Are The Mets As Good As Their Record?

Sports Illustrated, October 6, 1986.

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David Wright

ESPN, March 13, 2006.

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The Man Who Built the Mets

New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1986.

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[Edgy MD]

Dear Black Sports,



I want to root for the little guy against three publishing behemoths here, but yellow cover lines on a white background is unacceptable.

[Guest 41Forever]

Went with David Wright. I never liked the shadows on the pinstripes, and really didn't like the black crown cap with the pinstripes. But other than that, a great portrait of the Captain!

[batmagadanleadoff]

All of the cover subjects are holding bats. First time that's happened in any bracket.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I went with [CROSSOUT]Nelson[/CROSSOUT] Frank, but that's a nicely intense picture of a still moment of Willie

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[Centerfield]

I feel bad for Frank. He's not exactly a household face. He gets a magazine cover, and his name couldn't be printed any smaller.

[Edgy MD]

Who knew he batted lefty?

[kcmets]

Went with Frank.

[G-Fafif]

That David Wright cover is striking. That Darryl Strawberry cover is memorable. That Frank Cashen cover is merited.



But today is Willie Mays's 88th birthday, and I ain't voting against him today.

[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. The Man Who Built the Mets (New York Times Magazine)

26. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated)

27. The Straw Man! (New York Sports)

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

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