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Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Struggle at the Top (Sports Illustrated)

13 votes

Darryl Strawberry (Baseball Digest)

0 votes

Sluggers On Slugging (The Sporting News)

2 votes

The Case For Willie To Replace Casey (Sport World)

1 votes

Dwight Gooden: Best Young Pitcher In Baseball History? (Boys' Life)

2 votes

Benjamin Grimm Apr 25 2019 06:43 AM

http://ultimatemets.com/covers/images/magazines/MCD.png> Vote for the cover that you like the best. Voting will run for seven days. Struggle at the Top Sports Illustrated, June 21, 1971. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19710621_SI.jpg> Darryl Strawberry Baseball Digest, May 1986. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19860500_BD.jpg> Sluggers On Slugging The Sporting News, April 23, 2001. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/20010423_TSN.jpg> The Case For Willie To Replace Casey Sport World, October 1964. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19641000_SPORTWORLD.jpg> Dwight Gooden: Best Young Pitcher In Baseball History? Boys' Life, September 1986. http://ultimatemets.com/covers/magazines/19860900_BL.jpg>

HahnSolo Apr 25 2019 06:52 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Did Baseball Digest have like no budget for licensing cover photographs? Most of the ones in this contest have been pretty lousy.

HahnSolo Apr 25 2019 06:54 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

I went with the Grote action shot.

Edgy MD Apr 25 2019 07:00 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

He isn't even out of the crouch, yet, and his mask is nowhere to be seen. That's a quick-acting receiver. Grote puts the "cat" in catcher.

dgwphotography Apr 25 2019 07:23 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

As Johnny Bench once said when asked who was the better defensive catcher, "If we were on the same team, I'd be playing third base"

Lefty Specialist Apr 25 2019 08:00 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Grote gets my vote. Although I'd love to hear the case for Willie Mays replacing Casey Stengel.

Johnny Lunchbucket Apr 25 2019 08:41 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Grote to the max

kcmets Apr 25 2019 08:50 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

As Johnny Bench once said when asked who was the better defensive catcher, "If we were on the same team, I'd be playing third base" Great line.

Edgy MD Apr 25 2019 09:49 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

That wasn't the only 1964 Sport World Cover that Casey and Willie shared: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Uy0AAOSwgZ1XrcwM/s-l500.jpg>

Benjamin Grimm Apr 25 2019 09:57 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Is Willie Mays worth $105,000? Sheesh!

A Boy Named Seo Apr 25 2019 10:15 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

What's with that Sporting News sub-title? Skippy?? Never seen that Boys Life one before. Imagine being like 8 years old and the mail comes and in one issue you get to see the Boy Scouts photo winners and read about Dwight Gooden! Close call, but I'm going Grote.

MFS62 Apr 25 2019 11:04 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

I went with Sport World for the interesting (and wrong) premise. It reminded me of the days when the Mets were still trying to sell their fans on nostalgia (old guys/ old NY teams) when there weren't any exciting young guys (except Ron Hunt) emerging. Speaking of that, were there any voting-worthy covers of Ron Hunt? Later

batmagadanleadoff Apr 25 2019 12:19 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

=MFS62 post_id=8217 time=1556211854 user_id=60] I went with Sport World for the interesting (and wrong) premise. It reminded me of the days when the Mets were still trying to sell their fans on nostalgia (old guys/ old NY teams) when there weren't any exciting young guys (except Ron Hunt) emerging. Speaking of that, were there any voting-worthy covers of Ron Hunt? Later

As far as I know, Ron Hunt never appeared on the cover of a national magazine as a Met. Which raises the following question: who is the greatest Met never to appear on the cover of a sports magazine in a Mets uniform? I'm guessing Rusty Staub but in the back of my mind, I think Rusty might've appeared on the cover of one of those pulpy mags during his first Met stint. If that mag exists, I have it somewhere in my collection.

MFS62 Apr 25 2019 03:55 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=8229 time=1556216399 user_id=68] As far as I know, Ron Hunt never appeared on the cover of a national magazine as a Met.

A shonda.

Later

G-Fafif Apr 25 2019 05:01 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Sport World loves to stir that pot. But no struggle here choosing Grote.

Edgy MD Apr 25 2019 08:58 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=8229 time=1556216399 user_id=68] =MFS62 post_id=8217 time=1556211854 user_id=60] I went with Sport World for the interesting (and wrong) premise. It reminded me of the days when the Mets were still trying to sell their fans on nostalgia (old guys/ old NY teams) when there weren't any exciting young guys (except Ron Hunt) emerging. Speaking of that, were there any voting-worthy covers of Ron Hunt? Later

As far as I know, Ron Hunt never appeared on the cover of a national magazine as a Met. Which raises the following question: who is the greatest Met never to appear on the cover of a sports magazine in a Mets uniform? I'm guessing Rusty Staub but in the back of my mind, I think Rusty might've appeared on the cover of one of those pulpy mags during his first Met stint. If that mag exists, I have it somewhere in my collection.


According to bWAR, the top 24 Mets of all time are as follows



1) Seaver: 78.8

2) Wright: 50.4

3) Gooden: 46.3

4) Koosman: 39.6

5) Strawberry: 36.6

6) Beltran: 31.1

7) Alfonzo: 29.7

8) Fernandez: 29.2

9) deGrom: 27.6

10) Reyes: 27.1

11) Matlack: 27.0

12) Hernandez: 26.6

13) Leiter: 26.4

14) Piazza: 24.6

15) Johnson: 22.0

16) Wilson: 20.8

17) Cone: 20.2

18) Stearns: 19.6

19) Harrelson: 18.7

20) Jones: 18.1

21) Olerud: 17.3

T22) Glavine: 17.1

T22) Reed: 17.1

24) Darling: 16.8



I'd say the top player there I don't recall seeing so far is El Sid, but he probably will crop up on a photo as part of one iteration or another of the mid-eighties rotation.

batmagadanleadoff Apr 25 2019 10:12 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24 Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Apr 25 2019 10:26 PM

This is where this gets very subjective. I'm a huge Sid Fernandez fan, but I'd never in a million years figure Sid to be one of the top 10 all time Mets. By that list, Sid was a greater Met than Piazza. But I love that Gary Carter didn't even make that top 24 list. Confirms a lot of my thoughts on Carter the Met.

Edgy MD Apr 25 2019 10:24 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Yeah, that's why I chose the quick and dirty list. It may not be right, but it's objective. I was able to find some covers with Fernandez, presumably upcoming in the derby, so that leads next to ... Leiter? Number one Met of 1998, but ... was he a cover boy?

batmagadanleadoff Apr 25 2019 10:25 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, that's why I chose the quick and dirty list. It may not be right, but it's objective. I was able to find some covers with Fernandez, presumably upcoming in the derby, so that leads next to ... Leiter? Beat me to it. I just recalled this cover. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jKIAAOSwdzVXiB6h/s-l300.jpg>

batmagadanleadoff Apr 25 2019 10:27 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, that's why I chose the quick and dirty list. It may not be right, but it's objective. I was able to find some covers with Fernandez, presumably upcoming in the derby, so that leads next to ... Leiter? Number one Met of 1998, but ... was he a cover boy? That TV Guide (set of four) that already appeared in the derby.

A Boy Named Seo Apr 25 2019 10:28 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

Sid surprised me, too. Was trying to think of a star Fernandez I'd spaced, but Tony wasn't it.

Edgy MD Apr 25 2019 10:40 PM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

So ... Mookie?

Benjamin Grimm May 02 2019 07:35 AM Re: Magazine Cover Derby Round 1.24

http://ultimatemets.com/covers/images/magazines/1.24w.png> Rankings so far: 1. Casey of the Mets (Sports Illustrated) 2. Mets in the Stretch (Life) 3. Dr. K: Baseball's Hottest Pitcher (Time) 4. Best Infield Ever? (Sports Illustrated) 5. Struggle at the Top (Sports Illustrated) 6. Dwight the Great (Sports Illustrated) 7. The Movin' Mets (Sports Illustrated) 8. Late Innings (The New Yorker) 9. Pennant Pressure (Sports Illustrated) 10. Jay Hook of the N.Y. Mets (SarcoScope) 11. You Can Go Home Again (Sports Illustrated) 12. Doctor K (Sports Illustrated) 13. Tom & Nancy Seaver (McCall's) 14. Casey Stengel (New York Sunday News Magazine) 15. The Straw That Stirs The Mets (Sports Illustrated) 16. Darryl Strawberry: The Mets' Super Sophomore is the Apple of New York's Eye (The Sporting News) 17. Iwo Jima (Jock Magazine) 18. Darryl Strawberry: No Big Apple Hype (Inside Sports) 19. Tom Seaver & The Art Of Pitching (Sport Magazine) 20. Big Gun: Dave Kingman (The Sporting News) 21. Mona Lisa (The New Yorker) 22. Mr. Long Ball (Sports Illustrated) 23. The Straw Man! (New York Sports) 24. The Baseball Battle for New York (Sports Illustrated)