Mets Junk in the Trunk

[batmagadanleadoff]

In about an hour, I'll ID whatever Mets remain unidentified.

By the way, I didn't house clean or organize much of anything today. It was all downhill once I decided to post that mirror in this thread.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Here are your remaining in the glass Mets.

Section	Location	Met
1	Top	Bob Apodaca -- Zvon
1	Bottom left	Ed Kranepool -- DocTee
1	Bottom right	Skip Lockwood -- Zvon
2	Top left	MIKE PHILLIPS
2	Top right	Nino Espinosa -- G-FAFIF
2	Bottom	John Stearns -- G-FAFIF
3	Top	Leon Brown -- G-FAFIF
3	Middle	John Milner -- G-FAFIF
3	Leftmost (with guitar)	Bud Harrelson -- Zvon
3	Right most (ball in right hand)	Tom Seaver -- G-FAFIF
3	Bottom most	Joe Torre -- LWFS
4	Top	Dave Kingman -- G-FAFIF
4	Middle left	Jerry Koosman -- G-FAFIF
4	Middle right	Jon Matlack -- G-FAFIF
4	Bottom (furry mustache)	Felix Millan -- Cooby
5	Left	Roy Staiger -- Zvon
5	Top Middle	Jerry Grote -- G-FAFIF
5	Top right	BOB MYRICK
5	Bottom	Joe Frazier -- G-FAFIF
6	Top left	Ron Hodges -- DocTee
6	Middle (with bat)	Bruce Boisclair -- G-FAFIF
6	Top right	CRAIG SWAN
6	Bottom left	Lee Mazzilli -- G-FAFIF
6	Bottom right (same as Sec 5, top right)	BOB MYRICK
7		Mike Vail -- G-FAFIF

My answer to the subjective trivia question would be Mickey Lolich. Why Brown, but not Lolich? And if Lolich was initially included in the caricature but then cropped out after he announced his retirement, then why did Leon Brown remain in the caricature? Brown was traded before Lolich announced his retirement. Or did Lolich confirm that he would not return to the Mets for the 1977 season months before he officially announced his retirement?

Where's Mickey? And Leo Foster? And Pepe Mangual?

[Zvon]

kool gig.

I should have gotten Swan.
Not from the drawing but cause I should have remembered he was on this squad.
I was a Swanny fan.
He reminded me a lot of Seaver and I hoped he would do a third as well.

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Get outta town, Brown! Are you saying that you haven't seen this piece in over 30 years but you can still remember the word "Brown" on Leon Brown's cap?

You've got Mets junk in the trunk. I've got piles of it up in the attic (pointing to head).

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Get outta town, Brown! Are you saying that you haven't seen this piece in over 30 years but you can still remember the word "Brown" on Leon Brown's cap? You've got Mets junk in the trunk. I've got piles of it up in the attic (pointing to head).

You oughtta be in show business.

Any opinion as to why Leon's in but Mickey's out?

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Any opinion as to why Leon's in but Mickey's out?

I honestly believe(d) that's Leo Foster's caricature (based on press packet photo) and the artist screwed up and drew "Brown". Leon Brown was off the radar heading into 1977.

Lolich had made it clear long before Opening Day he wouldn't be back. My question is where's Ray Sadecki? He made the team for a brief second go-round.

Glad to see Bob Myrick was part of the crew if only to confirm the existence of Bob Myrick as something more than my default No. 44.

Sorry this got in the way of your late August spring cleaning, but this was fun. Thanks. (And Willie w/basket is now my wallpaper.)

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Any opinion as to why Leon's in but Mickey's out? I honestly believe(d) that's Leo Foster's caricature (based on press packet photo) and the artist screwed up and drew "Brown". Leon Brown was off the radar heading into 1977. Lolich had made it clear long before Opening Day he wouldn't be back. My question is where's Ray Sadecki? He made the team for a brief second go-round.

I'm not sold on your Brown/Foster theory. Even accounting for that Rigby was the caricaturist, that Brown cartoon looks a lot like Brown, and nothing like Foster.

[G-Fafif]

Three days ago, would have you dreamed you'd be searching for images of either Leo Foster or Leon Brown?

[Guest Kong76]

That Hammer caricature is freakin' me out every time I open
this thread. I loved that picture and had it on my Mets wall for
many many years. Oh the stuff I ruined with cheap tape from
Woolworths ...

[batmagadanleadoff]

(P.S. -- I still haven't made it to the Stengel entrance at CF).

[Frayed Knot]

Kong76 wrote: That Hammer caricature is freakin' me out every time I open this thread. I loved that picture and had it on my Mets wall for many many years. Oh the stuff I ruined with cheap tape from Woolworths ...

Yup. Me too.
I could only imagine what the originals of those drawings would take in right about now.


Stark was a friend of my father's for a time and a great caricaturist who did a lot of TV/movie stuff as well as sports.
I had a few wall posters of his - Get Smart & F-Troop IIRC - which I wish I had kept in better shape and hung onto.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think I told this story before but I recall very well peeling a Sunday Times apart page by page on the floor looking for more cartoons of the Mets when Dad came in and flipped out. The one I remember was Fregosi with a hot dog.

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: (P.S. -- I still haven't made it to the Stengel entrance at CF).

Who needs a VIP entrance when you've got junk in the trunk?

And amen on the Stark responses. I saved those for a while, too. Sorry I didn't save them a while longer. Didn't Tug have one with a fireman's helmet?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Both Tug Mcgraw and his MFY counterpart reliever, Sparky Lyle, were drawn wearing fireman hats

I saved the entire comic book section for each DN Sunday edition that included those Stark caricatures from 1973. (Dick Tracy on the front cover; Dondi on the back) I've scanned some of the cartoons into my computer. There were 11 in all ... the starting eight, the ace pitcher, a reliever and the manager. Staub was swinging a baker's rolling pin. Fregosi was no longer a Met on the day that his caricature appeared.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Zvon wrote: Zvon wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: That one was Bruce Stark. I remember those (and him). Loved those. One season they had one a week in the Sunday paper, I think. I tried to collect them all. Maybe they did that a few times over the years, I dunno. I remember the one of Willie Mays because he was making a basket catch with an actual basket, IIRC. AWSUM! Haven't seen that for over 30 years! ty sir

The Seaver one had him opening his jersey to show a Superman logo, or it might have been an F for Franchise shaped like the Superman logo. I used to keep them on my dresser -- and, alas, Mom eventually pitched them.

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Guest Edgy DC]

Did Seaver ever dip?

[batmagadanleadoff]

[Zvon]

This is great. I've been looking for these forever and have only run into Seaver, Tug and a small bad copy of Staub.
I was trying to work the crease out of Tug and this is as far as I got.
I have a real big resolution original and maybe I'll go back in and see if I can make that look better.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Zvon wrote: This is great. I've been looking for these forever and have only run into Seaver, Tug and a small bad copy of Staub. I was trying to work the crease out of Tug and this is as far as I got. I have a real big resolution original and maybe I'll go back in and see if I can make that look better.

It looks like Tug forgot to remove the wire hanger from his uniform before he took the mound.

[Frayed Knot]

http://www.artofbrucestark.com/

[Zvon]

http://www.artofbrucestark.com/

WOW. (ty FK)

I'm amazed that's all he has up (those 2 galleries).
He's the best.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Does anybody remember the 1982 Daily News Mets Starks? Each caricature took up the entire two page centerfold in the Sunday comics section. The cartoons were, thus, twice the size of the '73's, but with folds down the middle, which were unavoidable.

There were only six Mets (and MFY's, I presume, though I didn't bother to save or track those) ... Staub (again with the rolling pin), Kingman, Brooks, Wilson, Allen and Stearns.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, Bruce Stark. Rusty was BBQ chef, not a baker.

Hey, the late Dik Browne. Vikings didn't have buzzsaws.

Let's be honest about those caricatures. They're good, but what elevates them to excellent is the coloring. Did Stark do that also?

[Willets Point]

Is that a Cardinal humping Dave Kingman's leg?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Stark's 1982 Staub. No rolling pin, but a bigger chef's hat. In cartoons, Rusty doesn't gain any weight.

[Guest dcrules01]

Does anyone have this mazz poster???? or any info on the Flynn poster or Mazz poster\\

[Guest Edgy DC]

What sort of information are you looking for?

They're from the "Magic Is Back" campaign, from which "The Magic Is Real" extended. They look like the square subway posters that fit in the slot behind the conductor's booth.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I have that Doug Flynn Hot Diggity poster. I also have a Neil Allen ("Neil's Diamond") poster from that same ad campaign. The old Two Boots Pizzeria, formerly on Grand Street, NYC, featured a Hubie Brooks poster, also from that same ad campaign.

[Guest dcrules01]

So what season then 1981..I have 5 outta the 6 subways signs missing Mazzilli..The Flynn also has Brooks Mookie,Kingman and Neil Allen and Lee Mazzilli signs...