Mets Junk in the Trunk

[Guest Kong76]

A place to dust off some stuff and totally bend copyright laws ...



One of the cover stories:
Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/BDig0586a.pdf

[A Boy Named Seo]

Quality starts?!

In my day, it was wins and losses, not these new-fangled, algebra problems dressed up as baseball statistics.

[G-Fafif]

Google Books has most every Baseball Digest available in fairly wieldy navigation form. Plenty of issues from the '70s and '80s. I discovered BD in 1972 and at one point owned every issues from 1974 to 1988.

go to: books.google.com

Enter: Baseball Digest (first choice that comes up)

Click on: Browse All Issues

You'll find: A listing of every decade from 1940 to 2000

Click on: Any decade you like; you'll find thumbnails for every available issue in that span

Go: Nuts

[Theoldmole]

I can't find browse all issues.

[Theoldmole]

Found it.

[Theoldmole]

Reading their picks for the hot rookies of 1951. Barely mentioned as also-rans: Gil McDougald and shortstop Mickey Mantle. Not mentioned at all: Willie Mays.

[Guest Kong76]

That is very cool, Fafif ... thanks.

[metirish]

A place to dust off some stuff and totally bend copyright laws ... One of the cover stories: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/BDig0586a.pdf

Excellent article....fun to read that Doc had 33 quality starts out of 35....WOW

Got a kick out of the Scouts report under that article

Veteran Scout Names the Major Leagues' Best

Worst arm , outfield , infield or anywhere - Lee Mazzilli (Pittsburgh) - Ouch

Best fastball: Dwight Gooden (New York Mets).

And then the ad for the major league tryouts....

[Fman99]

See, the thread title made me think that the Mets had acquired Jonathan Broxton.

[Guest Kong76]

And I thought the first joke would be about El Sid.

[MFS62]

I used to like the "Rookie Reports" issue each year. I'd always get my hopes up. For example, the one on Bud Harrelson said "Good power for a shortstop".
Then, I saw him play.
Then, I stopped buying Baseball Digest.

But for a long time, it was the only place you could find semi-up-to-date rosters.

Later

[Guest Kong76]

Speaking of Doc ...



Long article, ~4-5mb .pdf:
Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/Time0486a.pdf

[Frayed Knot]

"Speaking of Doc ..." 45 y/o today

[Guest Kong76]

Something tells me the lawyers from Score won't care ...
Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/Score1170a.pdf

[G-Fafif]

Something tells me the lawyers from Score won't care ... Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/Score1170a.pdf

Score: The sports magazine with the in-your-face attitude. Little did they know who else O.J. Simpson was capable of hurting.

[Guest Kong76]

A pristine '76 program ...



A piece from it about Dave Kingman:
http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/SheaProg76b.pdf

[batmagadanleadoff]

Something tells me the lawyers from Score won't care ... Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/Score1170a.pdf Score: The sports magazine with the in-your-face attitude. Little did they know who else O.J. Simpson was capable of hurting.

Tom Seaver also appeared on the inaugural February 1970 issue of the short-lived pulpy "Score Magazine". I can't find a decent picture of that issue on the web and I don't subscribe to any web-hosting image storing sites, but here's an active ebay link to a pending auction for that mag:

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-1970-SCORE-SPORTS-MAGAZINE-TOM-SEAVER-METS_W0QQitemZ370254240477QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Sports_Memorabilia?hash=item5634df5add

[Guest Kong76]

Thanks, if I find it I'll post something from it next. If I don't, I guess
I'll have to make an offer on it lol.

[G-Fafif]

Kong's got the best junk in his trunk.

I remember reading that article in 1976, somewhat surprised the Mets would cop to Shea Stadium having been "skid row" for home run hitters. Guess they could admit it once they had a legitimate slugger.

[Guest Kong76]

Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/SheaProg91b.pdf

[metirish]

Klapisch playing it straight in that article.......must have been before things turned sour.

[G-Fafif]

But no Met has ever done what Coleman is about to do.

Prophetic words from Bob "Soft Rain" Klapisch.

I will take Ron Darling's assessment of leaders with many grains of salt after reading this.

[Guest Kong76]

Another somewhat rare Seaver cover ...



The nerve of some pitchers, a cool mil over five years???
Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/CWide1070.pdf

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Another somewhat rare Seaver cover ... The nerve of some pitchers, a cool mil over five years??? Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/CWide1070.pdf

That's so cool!!! I've never seen that one.

[G-Fafif]

Another somewhat rare Seaver cover ... The nerve of some pitchers, a cool mil over five years??? Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/CWide1070.pdf

Dick Young saw this, went ballistic and made it his mission to run Tom out of town.

[Guest Kong76]

The Monsanto ad is priceless ...
Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/Atlprog1069.pdf

[ashie62]

Another somewhat rare Seaver cover ... The nerve of some pitchers, a cool mil over five years??? Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/CWide1070.pdf Dick Young saw this, went ballistic and made it his mission to run Tom out of town.

Yes..leading to Grant's Tomb

[G-Fafif]

The Monsanto ad is priceless ... Click here: http://www.kcmets.com/CPF/Atlprog1069.pdf

Grass is on the way out, no doubt about it.

Always thought the Braves were trying too hard with that giant leap for the southeast business -- especially since the Giants finished directly behind them in the West.

The West...it didn't cross my mind for years that Atlanta being in the same geographical setup as three California teams was odd. As the late '90s and early '00s would prove, it was preferable.

[Benjamin Grimm]

There was no Photoshop in 1969, so they must have actually sent a guy in a Braves uniform to the moon in order to get that shot.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And one highly conditioned athlete at that.