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Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Mets in the Stretch (Life)

20 votes

How Baseball Wives See Those Fat Salaries (Parade Magazine)

0 votes

HoJo Makes His Mark (Baseball Digest)

2 votes

Opening Day! (Next Stop)

0 votes

Benjamin Grimm Mar 27 2019 04:40 AM

http://ultimatemets.com/covers/images/magazines/MCD.png> Vote for the cover that you like the best. Voting will run for seven days. Mets in the Stretch Life, September 26, 1969. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19690926_LIFE.jpg> How Baseball Wives See Those Fat Salaries Parade Magazine, May 15, 1977. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19770515_PARADE.jpg> HoJo Makes His Mark Baseball Digest, November 1989. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19891100_BD.jpg> Opening Day! Next Stop, April 2011. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/20110400_NEXTSTOP.jpg>

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 27 2019 05:11 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

wtf

41Forever Mar 27 2019 06:19 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

I think the Wright photo was from someone with a point and shoot in the stands, running down to the first row to snap the photo before the ushers grabbed them by the collar and ran them out of there!

whippoorwill Mar 27 2019 06:24 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: wtf lol

whippoorwill Mar 27 2019 06:25 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

I love Nancy's outfit but I hate her hair here. I do especially love the Dr Scholl sandals. My sister and I were nuts about them! They were pretty ouchy though if you happened to misstep in them. Voting for Jerry K

whippoorwill Mar 27 2019 06:30 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

BTW, as a fellow wife, I'll bet the baseball wives loved the fat salaries. A very puzzling article idea.

Edgy MD Mar 27 2019 07:16 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

=whippoorwill post_id=5184 time=1553689558 user_id=79] I love Nancy's outfit but I hate her hair here.

Yeah, that's a preview of her solid state RedWife hair.



But the mom jeans... grrrrrr-ow!

Frayed Knot Mar 27 2019 07:28 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

'How Baseball Wives See Those Fat Salaries' ... or, as today's player wives would call that kind of loot: tip money.

Edgy MD Mar 27 2019 09:19 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

A bonus in that HoJo cover is Keith playing Penis Bat in the background.

Centerfield Mar 27 2019 09:21 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Koos. Though I do love Wright's swing, the photo is kinda shitty.

A Boy Named Seo Mar 27 2019 09:22 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

What is NEXTSTOP? Some public transportation monthly? I tend to want to give an extra point to an outfit that is not a baseball or sports rag, so LIFE wins it narrowly over HoJo. If HoJo wasn't taking that awkward, fooled-on-the-pitch, dribbler-foul-down-the-third-base-line swing, I mighta voted for him.

Edgy MD Mar 27 2019 09:26 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

=Centerfield post_id=5210 time=1553700104 user_id=65] Koos. Though I do love Wright's swing, the photo is kinda shitty.

HoJo's, on the other hand, is a lousy one-handed flail at the curveball away. Yay, HoJo! Make that mark!!

kcmets Mar 27 2019 09:33 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

I never heard of NEXTSTOP either. Funny, I saw HoJo going with the pitch and hitting a laced grounder all the way to the wall for a stand up double. I'm the lone HoJo vote so far.

Edgy MD Mar 27 2019 09:37 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

=kcmets post_id=5214 time=1553700831 user_id=53] I never heard of NEXTSTOP either. Funny, I saw HoJo going with the pitch and hitting a laced grounder all the way to the wall for a stand up double. I'm the lone HoJo vote so far.

It'd be great if you're right and he went the other way down the line here. But that wasn't really his game.

Johnny Lunchbucket Mar 27 2019 09:41 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Edgy MD wrote: =Centerfield post_id=5210 time=1553700104 user_id=65] Koos. Though I do love Wright's swing, the photo is kinda shitty. HoJo's, on the other hand, is a lousy one-handed flail at the curveball away. Yay, HoJo! Make that mark!!

Yeah that's a brutal swing they captured. Were it not for those musclular thighs he looks like a guy who's never played baseball before.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 27 2019 10:12 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Kooz and the Miracle Mets on the cover of America's most widely read general interest mag during its peak era. Hard to top that. Looks like it's gonna be Kooz Life over the Seaver family on Parade in a landslide. This might be the first time Kooz out-polled Seaver in anything. Not even Nancy could push Seaver over the top here.

whippoorwill Mar 27 2019 11:33 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Edgy MD wrote: =whippoorwill post_id=5184 time=1553689558 user_id=79] I love Nancy's outfit but I hate her hair here. Yeah, that's a preview of her solid state RedWife hair. But the mom jeans... grrrrrr-ow!

Yeah, I love those jeans!

G-Fafif Mar 27 2019 02:30 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

NextStop magazine seems to cover Eastern Long Island mostly -- and seems to have not updated its online content all that much since 2015.

G-Fafif Mar 27 2019 02:36 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

The Life of the party for this round. Time and Life in the same month. These Mets were big news (and based in New York). Parade makes the spouses sound very greedy and grubby, eyeing those "fat salaries". Maybe that's where Dick Young to the idea to drag Nancy Seaver and Ruth Ryan into his caustic coverage. The comment on Keith's on-deck accoutrement reminds me that when Mex guested on Robert Klein's short-lived USA Network talk show in the '86-'87 offseason, the host asked the athlete what the deal was with jocks "buffing their testicles" after coming out of the shower, making that weird towel between the legs motion to illustrate his question. Keith chuckled uncomfortably.

dgwphotography Mar 28 2019 07:13 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Life is the best of a bad lot. The crooked horizon ruins what is otherwise an excellent cover.

Edgy MD Mar 28 2019 07:42 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

The saturation level also seems very un-LIFE-like.

Zvon Mar 28 2019 02:40 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

This is a no-brainer for me because I have a copy of the Life Kooz cover signed by the 1969 Mets. It holds a place in my heart. Everyone except Seaver. He was the only one who didn't appear at this card show many years ago. Hey, do you think if I mailed it to Tom he'd sign it and mail it back? I've read about folks who have done thing type of thing but I've always felt like something like that was an imposition. I've got Agee's autograph on it and that makes it priceless to me.

Fman99 Mar 29 2019 05:58 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

Love the Kooz action shot.

Edgy MD Mar 29 2019 06:26 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

It's cool how the the torn-away part of the address label on the front of the magazine is right under his foot, as if his spikes are tearing away at it.

whippoorwill Mar 29 2019 06:30 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

=dgwphotography post_id=5332 time=1553778789 user_id=78] Life is the best of a bad lot. The crooked horizon ruins what is otherwise an excellent cover.

It matches the angle of his shoulders. It's perfect. So there.

Edgy MD Mar 29 2019 08:57 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

It's funny how third base is mostly in focus, and you can't really spot how deep on the horizon it's supposed to be. I mean, we know how a field is laid out and where third base is relative to the pitcher. But keep staring at that base long enough, and it'll start to look like somebody just frisbee'd it through his legs, or it just dropped out of his buttocks.

Benjamin Grimm Apr 03 2019 08:39 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.07

http://ultimatemets.com/covers/images/magazines/1.07w.png> Rankings so far: 1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated) 2. Mets in the Stretch (Life) 3. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated) 4. Tom Seaver & The Art Of Pitching (Sport Magazine) 5. Big Gun: Dave Kingman (The Sporting News) 6. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated) 7. The Baseball Battle for New York (Sports Illustrated)