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Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Pennant Pressure (Sports Illustrated)

11 votes

Keith Hernandez Just Wants To Play (GQ)

6 votes

Twin Bill (The New Yorker)

0 votes

Tug McGraw: Maturity at Last? (The Sporting News)

1 votes

Benjamin Grimm Apr 22 2019 08:07 AM

http://ultimatemets.com/covers/images/magazines/MCD.png> Vote for the cover that you like the best. Voting will run for seven days. Pennant Pressure Sports Illustrated, September 7, 1970. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19700907_SI.jpg> Keith Hernandez Just Wants To Play GQ, April 1986. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19860400_GQ.jpg> Twin Bill The New Yorker, October 30, 2000. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/20001030_TNY.jpg> Tug McGraw: Maturity at Last? The Sporting News, April 26, 1969. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19690426_TSN.jpg>

Edgy MD Apr 22 2019 08:10 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Benjamin Grimm wrote: http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/20001030_TNY.jpg> Wow, she does have smaller hands than President Trump.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 22 2019 08:39 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

The perspective on the Harrelson cover looks kinda cool, but the shoulder is in the way of what looks like a decent shot.

seawolf17 Apr 22 2019 08:40 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

These are all pretty terrible. Keith by default.

41Forever Apr 22 2019 09:20 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

=seawolf17 post_id=7876 time=1555944051 user_id=91] These are all pretty terrible. Keith by default.

That was my thought. Buddy marred by the player blocking the view!

Edgy MD Apr 22 2019 09:22 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Still, there's a lot more narrative there — and important historical narrative — then you'll ever get out of Keith's goofy yacht club outfit.

G-Fafif Apr 22 2019 10:07 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Harrelson knocks down Rose, knocks off competition.

kcmets Apr 22 2019 10:15 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Went with Bud, but only by a 'stache hair.

Edgy MD Apr 22 2019 10:38 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

I will say that's a pretty eighties lineup Keith Hernandez is anchoring there: Joe Klein, Ward Just and Kenneth Turan.

seawolf17 Apr 22 2019 10:48 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

=G-Fafif post_id=7882 time=1555949274 user_id=55] Harrelson knocks down Rose, knocks off competition.

If Santa wasn't blocking a third of the image, then I'd totally agree.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 22 2019 11:01 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

"Maturity at Last?" Jeez, Tug looks like a toothless old geezer on that cover. Hey --wasn't that a question better suited for the Mets?

G-Fafif Apr 22 2019 11:02 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

=seawolf17 post_id=7887 time=1555951682 user_id=91] =G-Fafif post_id=7882 time=1555949274 user_id=55] Harrelson knocks down Rose, knocks off competition.

If Santa wasn't blocking a third of the image, then I'd totally agree.


This was how we all watched baseball in the early '70s, behind a large, jolly, bearded man bearing gifts. Additional points to SI for capturing that realism.

Lefty Specialist Apr 22 2019 12:13 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Looked like Harrelson was about to drop a baseball on Rose's crotch. In retrospect, he should have. But Keith is just so flamboyantly.......Keith.

Edgy MD Apr 22 2019 12:15 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

I think that was short, surly, clean-shaven Joe Morgan, breaking for first in a futile effort to beat the double-play.

G-Fafif Apr 22 2019 12:21 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Joe Morgan, 1970 Houston Astro?

Edgy MD Apr 22 2019 12:26 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

I'm mentally in 1973.

G-Fafif Apr 22 2019 12:31 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

Pennant pressure takes its toll on all of us.

dgwphotography Apr 22 2019 04:26 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

My best guess is that the Harrelson cover was shot during the top of the ninth inning on August 22. That's Bobby Tolan running to first, and Rose was just out, scored 5-6 in the scorebook. This isn't the only time that Rose was out on an FC at second in that series, but it is the only time that there was a runner ahead of him at third base, which explains Buddy's looking toward third. Here's the box score: https://www.ultimatemets.com/gamedetail.php?gameno=1429&tabno=D

MFS62 Apr 22 2019 07:10 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

=dgwphotography post_id=7925 time=1555971973 user_id=78] My best guess is that the Harrelson cover was shot during the top of the ninth inning on August 22. That's Bobby Tolan running to first, and Rose was just out, scored 5-6 in the scorebook. This isn't the only time that Rose was out on an FC at second in that series, but it is the only time that there was a runner ahead of him at third base, which explains Buddy's looking toward third.

Any cover that shows Pete Rose on his ass gets my vote. A partial view of that is better than none.

Later

Benjamin Grimm Apr 29 2019 08:14 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.21

http://ultimatemets.com/covers/images/magazines/1.21w.png> Rankings so far: 1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated) 2. Mets in the Stretch (Life) 3. Best Infield Ever? (Sports Illustrated) 4. Dwight the Great (Sports Illustrated) 5. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated) 6. Late Innings (The New Yorker) 7. Pennant Pressure (Sports Illustrated) 8. Jay Hook of the N.Y. Mets (SarcoScope) 9. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated) 10. Doctor K (Sports Illustrated) 11. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's) 12. The Straw That Stirs The Mets (Sports Illustrated) 13. Darryl Strawberry: The Mets' Super Sophomore is the Apple of New York's Eye (The Sporting News) 14. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine) 15. Darryl Strawberry: No Big Apple Hype (Inside Sports) 16. Tom Seaver & The Art Of Pitching (Sport Magazine) 17. Big Gun: Dave Kingman (The Sporting News) 18. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker) 19. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated) 20. The Straw Man! (New York Sports) 21. The Baseball Battle for New York (Sports Illustrated)