1979 Yearbook

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: So, sans poster, the yabbuk is worth like, what? Half of what I'd otherwise pay? You think?

Id think it depreciates the YB in a major way, and worth while waiting for one with the poster in it.

[Guest cooby]

He's right, buy one on the cheap just to have one, but keep looking for one with the poster. It's really nice.

[Guest cooby]

BTW, it was every Met that ever played up through 1980, in case you didn't know that.



Edit: Same picture of Salty Parker

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, shouldn't the IMDB then have ever player that ever wore the uniform through 1980?

[Guest cooby]

Whoa! Excellent point!

Though they are all in B/W

[Zvon]

cooby wrote: Edit: Same picture of Salty Parker

lmao.
Who was that guy?
I mean, i know he managed the Mets for 7 games, thanks to UMDB, but who the 'ell was he?

[Guest cooby]

I wonder though, if Mr. UMDB would consider B/W, it may be all there is of those first players

[Guest Edgy DC]

There are plenty of b/w pictures in the UMDB. Mr. Kiss It Goodbye, for instance.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I just gobbled up one of those 1967 yearbooks.

While the first editions of these thingies are obviously the more valuable, whicht do you think is a more useful iterm for research --- the first edition or the revised?

[Benjamin Grimm]

First editions tend to include more players, all of the guys who went to spring training hoping to make the team. The revised editions tend to zero in on the players who are still with the club in June, or July, or whenever.

I like having both.

Do the Mets still revise their yearbooks? Is there a 1998 yearbook with Piazza in it? If not, when did they stop the practice. I think (though I'm not sure) that in the 1960's they would sometimes revise the yearbook more than once during the season. (First revised edition, Second revised edition, etc.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think it's a season-by-season call. They probably do if there's a mid-season managerial change, or a marquee trade. But I'm speculating.

[seawolf17]

If anyone wants one of the "OFFICAL" 1974s, there's one in an eBay store right now for $40.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: First editions tend to include more players, all of the guys who went to spring training hoping to make the team. The revised editions tend to zero in on the players who are still with the club in June, or July, or whenever. I like having both. Do the Mets still revise their yearbooks? Is there a 1998 yearbook with Piazza in it? If not, when did they stop the practice. I think (though I'm not sure) that in the 1960's they would sometimes revise the yearbook more than once during the season. (First revised edition, Second revised edition, etc.)

That practice ceased after the 1991 season. Well except for special Bi-ligual (Spanish) edition in 1992, which continued a run that started in 1988 of 4 Spanish editions of the yearbook

My guess is that they signed on with a new publisher who felt that it was not cost prohibitve to continue the practice of churning out new editions during the summer, so the programs have since been the place for updates on changes in personel

The lone exception to this through all the years, 1998. After Hideo Nomo joined Piazza on the club in May, all subsequent yearbooks would include a single, two-sided sheet featuring the newly accquired former Dodger ROYs in the same style of the player profile pages in the book.

I wonder what that insert (it wasn't attached in any way) fetches on eBay

Anyway, after the 60's the Mets settled on just two English editions per year with 69, 70, 74 (not counting the official/offical debacle) 80 and 81 with the lone exceptions

Well, TECHNICALLY 78 and 79 were different only in the price on the cover. A 1978 edition of John Stearns making (or missing) a tag could cost you a buck 25 at newstands, but at the ballpark just a buck! However a year later it rose to 1.50 at Shea and a whopping 2 bucks at newstands!

Whats funny is that the 77 and from 87 to 91 the 2nd edition was a brand spanking new cover. Yet in the two places where Met cover history is officially retropected (the 35 years of covers in 96 and the reception area for the Mets offices on the Field Level at Shea (accessible via the Diamond Club elevator) ) its only the first edition that gets the love. Ah well...

By the way, the 1960's were such a turbulent time that this is the number of editions per year:

1962 5 (to be fair one is just a change in advertizing color and the last version is one day after the 4th edition)
1963 4
1964 6 (Shea's memorabilia vendors must have nearly rioted that first year)
1965 4
1966 4
1967 3 (now we start getting to a manageable (in terms of collecting) amount
1968 2
and the aforementioned 1969

Although, 1969 has the distinction of being reprinted twice through the years and 1973's also has been reprinted as well. 69 got the treatment both in 1989 and 1994 with different sponsers being the key difference and 1973 got reprinted in 2003

Quite a history...

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's a fantastique summary. Thanks.

Is it safe to assume the later-day reprints are noted as such on the cover, or can an unscrupulous dealer pass them off as originals without photoshop subterfuge?

[Zvon]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: By the way, the 1960's were such a turbulent time that this is the number of editions per year: 1962 5 (to be fair one is just a change in advertizing color and the last version is one day after the 4th edition) 1963 4 1964 6 (Shea's memorabilia vendors must have nearly rioted that first year) 1965 4 1966 4 1967 3 (now we start getting to a manageable (in terms of collecting) amount 1968 2 and the aforementioned 1969

I did not know this.
Amazin.
Amazin, amazin, amazin.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Edgy DC wrote: That's a fantastique summary. Thanks. Is it safe to assume the later-day reprints are noted as such on the cover, or can an unscrupulous dealer pass them off as originals without photoshop subterfuge?

Sadly only from the back cover, or if the stock looks very, very clean (I think the 2003 73 may have been glossy stock)

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

By the way, here is that insert featuring the two former ROYs accquired in May of 1998:

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

By the way, here is the "bird" shot from the 76 Yearbook's promotion dates page:



What a brat that kid must have been. Player is being nice putting a glove on a kid with a broken arm, and he flips the player a bird?

How did THAT get past the editiors I'll never know

Steve

[Guest Edgy DC]

Looks like an index finger to me.

Three inches up from that is Mrs. Kranepool and Mrs. Stone (who looks like a teenager) defying convention taking the field on a hot day in halter tops.

Was 1976 the coolest year ever?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I just won the 1981 book with the poster.

I was feeling kewl to win it for $5.00, but the guy is charging $10.00 shipping.

[Guest cooby]

Edgy, I'm too lazy to go look, but if Mrs. Stone is who I'm thinking of, you're right, she was a doll

[soupcan]

I think this is a good cover...

[Guest cooby]

I should have gotten one of those the other day

[soupcan]

!!!!

Why the hell didn't you?

If I didn't go to multiple Mets games during the season I would've been snapping up every souvenir in sight!

[Guest cooby]

I guess I didn't think of it

[soupcan]

Damn it.

This means I have to get one for you doesn't it?

[DocTee]

Too much black-- bring on the blue and orange.

[Guest cooby]

soupcan wrote: Damn it. This means I have to get one for you doesn't it?

That would be really nice

[soupcan]

Speaking of yearbooks in the 'Post season schedule - Willie Montanez' thread by the way - I have recently completed my collection to the extent that I have at least one yearbook from every single year.

Still working on the revised and Spanish language editions though.

The goal is to have at least one copy of each version printed. I'm close but the '62s aren't cheap (there's 5 or 6 different versions of them) and the Spanish ones are harder to come by than you might think.

On Edit: Did this thread automatically move itself once I posted in it?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Yikes! I thought my collection would be complete once I snagged a '62. I had no idea there were so many versions in the mid-60s. Now I see I have a lot of catching up to do!

And by the way, that 1980 cover with the kid and shoelaces is brutal.

The recent string of covers seem pretty bland. And as much of a Seaver fan I am, the cover of him with the baseballs for the consecutive strikeout years is so boring it hurts!

I always kind of liked the 1976 cover.