Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine cover (1992-08) - “Kirby!”
Posted by Rhubarb_Runner on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at 6:00 am
[contributed by: Rhubarb_Runner]
Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine cover - August 1992
"Kirby!"
"Meet Baseball's Biggest Kid, Kirby Puckett"
photographed by George B. Fry III
accompanying article by Marc Appleman
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The cover story in this issue is titled “Power Pack” and is found on pages 32-39. "Built like a spark plug and filled with energy, all-star outfielder Kirby Puckett has led the Minnesota Twins to two world championships." The article includes a centerfold batting stance photo, fast facts, and Kirby's favorite things (think "basketball").
Additional articles of note include:
- sportscaster camp
- Kenny Walker, NFL's only deaf player
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SI Kids isn't the place to go for "articles of note" obviously. It does include several sports cards inserts, including Matt Williams, Bobby Bonilla, and Chuck Finley, so it has that going for it, which is nice.
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Personal notes:
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I'm a little offended that SI has to spoon-feed sterotype image pablum like the kid on the cover with glasses, suspenders, and a dog-earred Elias in hand. Same folks that had to put the "villain" meteorologists in black clothes and black vans in "Twister."
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Is anyone truly "built like a spark plug"? I could maybe see "fireplug", if you happen to be someone who defers to old terminology instead of "fire hydrant", but sparkplug doesn't cut it.
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Watch the game, Poindexter! Kid is lucky the ball wasn't hit four feet further left. Either it or Kirby's glove would've killed him. (Or at least concussed him.)
Actually, he is watching the game. Image is a little small, but he's glancing left at Kirby.
Not sure why only the girls have food/drink.
Well, you know that girls can't like sports for it's own sake, so their fathers have enticed them to the games with promises of hot dogs, candy, popcorn, and soda.
And yes, little 'Dexter, you can bring your stats book with.
I sure am glad that they stopped using rotten plywood for outfield fences. How many splinters did Kirdy have to remove from his fireplug abdomen back in the day?