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Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

1971

14 votes

2009

5 votes

Benjamin Grimm Apr 11 2018 04:24 AM

1971 2009

Benjamin Grimm Apr 11 2018 04:39 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

1971 was my first Mets yearbook. I was eight years old and I utterly destroyed my first copy with all of the attention I gave it. (Many years later I bought a replacement copy. I still have the original.) I have a feeling that 2009 is going to be the latest to succumb to a rout in this competition.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 11 2018 04:50 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

I just determined the time and place of that 71 cover: July 25, 1970, 6th inning. That's Manny Mota out at home; he was going for an inside the park, 2-run home run but was retired 9-4-2! The Mets rallied for 4 runs in the 7th to win 6-4. Dave Marshall took the Shaefer honors with a pinch-hit 3-run jack. [url]http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=1402

batmagadanleadoff Apr 11 2018 07:06 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

I just determined the time and place of that 71 cover: July 25, 1970, 6th inning. That's Manny Mota out at home; he was going for an inside the park, 2-run home run but was retired 9-4-2! The Mets rallied for 4 runs in the 7th to win 6-4. Dave Marshall took the Shaefer honors with a pinch-hit 3-run jack. [url]http://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=1402 That's Shag Crawford doing the home plate umping. The '71 is the first Mets yearbook I got at the ballgame, which I probably devoured during BP, including the informational blurb providing details of the cover photo.

Frayed Knot Apr 11 2018 07:15 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

So the 'Revised Edition' was the one they put out after they went to the replay review on that play at the plate?

Edgy MD Apr 11 2018 07:19 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

I like how Mota is signaling himself safe but Crawford hasn't made his call yet. An obvious parallel with 1978 but this time the guy is out. Now I want to start a project in which we make a fake cover for every year featuring a play at the plate from the previous season. Cannizzaro, Hodges, Ortiz, O'Brien. It'll be a parade of catchers and dust.

SteveJRogers Apr 11 2018 08:00 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

Action photo over a prospectus folder cover!

RealityChuck Apr 11 2018 08:01 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

1971. The action photo works far better than the static (and ultimately too busy) graphic. Plus it has Jerry Grote, who rarely got the respect he deserved.

MFS62 Apr 11 2018 08:03 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

The 1971 action shot would be good on the back page of the daily paper, but not on a year book. Unless that was a significant game or minute that I don't recall right now, it doesn't capture a season for me. Later

A Boy Named Seo Apr 11 2018 08:08 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

I'm trying to think if I've ever seen that 71 before. I don't remember the "REVISED EDITION" stamp. Awesome photo. The triangles and all the unused blue and orange space on the 2009 cover don't do anything for me. Like, why isn't that Citi Field logo in the lower right triangle larger? Weird one.

41Forever Apr 11 2018 08:37 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

The 1971 yearbook was my first one. Seven-yer-old me probably learned more about reading by studying that yearbook than I did from any text we had in school. The 2009 cover is a missed opportunity. Showing off a new ballpark is a rare opportunity. Rather than showing us the gleaming new ballpark -- and they had a beautiful photo on there -- they covered it up with dead space. Sometimes I wonder if these are an assembly line thing with graphic designers who don't know anything about baseball.

Edgy MD Apr 11 2018 08:43 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

The layout of the 2009 cover is visual reference to the much-reviled Citi Field Dominos logo. Devoting so much space to the blue and orange fields from that logo and so little to the player photos is pretty much sinful.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 11 2018 09:33 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

Edgy MD wrote: The layout of the 2009 cover is visual reference to the much-reviled Citi Field Dominos logo. Devoting so much space to the blue and orange fields from that logo and so little to the player photos is pretty much sinful. Ah, yes. The reference suxxx, too.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 11 2018 09:37 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

Edgy MD wrote: Now I want to start a project in which we make a fake cover for every year featuring a play at the plate from the previous season. Cannizzaro, Hodges, Ortiz, O'Brien. It'll be a parade of catchers and dust. I like this idea. Now, get to work on it.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 11 2018 10:00 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

What year was the famous collision between John Stearns and Dave Parker?

SteveJRogers Apr 11 2018 10:06 AM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

41Forever wrote: The 1971 yearbook was my first one. Seven-yer-old me probably learned more about reading by studying that yearbook than I did from any text we had in school. “We learned more from a baseball team’s yearbook baby, then we ever learned in school...” Doesn’t have the same feel as “three minute record” ;)

G-Fafif Apr 11 2018 01:08 PM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

That silver bar separating the artist's rendering of Citi Field from the rest of the 2009 cover is symbolic. It's there to tell us you need the correct ticket to ascend to the exclusive provinces of the new world class home of the New York Mets. Even the players who are taking that UP escalator toward the Ebbets Club are running into the barrier and needing to show they belong. That's my theory, anyway. I don't know what's graphically going on. Are the Mets lifting the curtain and revealing Citi Field? Are they rolling back the lid on a can of sardines? You have a new ballpark, a team full of players presumed ready to contend, a pleasing inaugural logo and the overtones of a less pleasing inaugural logo...and it's all Colorformed onto a cover that never accomplishes the simple task of welcoming us to our new home. The fetish with including fistfuls of Mets is a detriment year after year. What is the purpose? "I'm really on the fence about this experience, but that thumbnail of Mike Pelfrey is what's selling me." No doubt there are meetings about who to include, who to leave out, who is gonna have a stronger arbitration case if his agent can claim he's intrinsic to the team's marketing plans because of his spot on the cover of the last yearbook. The Mets included only one of their players on the 1971 yearbook cover and it was plenty. I can picture the action scene, the first (of precious few) the Mets have used, being illustrated for one of those early '80s "this is what baseball looks like romanticized" covers. The photo gets the image across successfully. I always liked shots at Shea that also included somebody just chillin' in whichever dugout is in the background. Sure Mota is sliding for his life, Grote is bracing for the worst and Crawford wants to avoid a futuristic replay challenge, but the real story is the Dodgers trainer or whoever he is not being moved to interrupt his daydream. It's an interesting shift from every previous Mets cover. Those spoke to Mets identity and Mets experience. This is Mets baseball. Come get a good seat for it. Read all about those who execute it inside this fine publication. It's the last yearbook (save for stray revised editions) that I don't remember from its season in the sun, but I picked it up thirty or so years later and was glad to have it. I'm glad to vote for it here. I'm glad to not vote for 2009. Citi Field is an old enough shoe now, but I still resent its rise. This cover brings back all those Shea-deprived sentiments. A great cover might have gotten my vote, but not my heart.

cooby Apr 11 2018 01:49 PM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

Grote

Frayed Knot Apr 11 2018 02:27 PM Re: Yearbook Cover Derby Round 1.20 1971 vs 2009

cooby wrote: Grote To the max