Back in December I shared my masthead re-design and cover illustration for the Baseball Research Journal. Baseball Research Journal is the flagship publication of the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR. Published for over 50 years, BRJ was “created so that members could publish and share their research with like-minded students of baseball.” […]
In 2016 I was invited to bring my passion for depicting the game into the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, where my five foot tall portraits of Cubs greats will be on permanent display in the newly renovated bleacher section. From the famed “Tinker to Evers to Chance” double play combo of the early […]
This is not your typical biography, but the story of my three-decade quest to uncover and document the life and career of a little-known Negro League ballplayer who may or may not have been named Lefty Glover. […]
In the decade before the Dodgers and Giants moved west and the Major League added more teams, each corner of the country had their own minor league heroes who to them, were anything but minor. The west coast worshipped Steve Bilko, the southwest cheered for Joe Bauman, the northeast loved Luke Easter, and down south, no one player was cheered more than Country Brown. […]
It was both a shock and incredible honor to this Jersey Boy and lifetime New York Post reader to find that Phil Muchnick mentioned my work in his Sunday column this past week… […]
Among the things I re-discovered when culling my archive was the color proofs sent to me when I when I was writing my book, The League of Outsider Baseball. Here’s the second group of 10 different illustrations that are available in my store. […]
Among the 200,000 U.S. Army soldiers that stormed ashore on the Philippine island of Leyte in November of 1944 was a 24 year-old staff sergeant named Milt Rosenstein. Just three years earlier he had a spectacular first season in professional ball, winning 20 games, led his league in strikeouts and pitched the Miami Beach Flamingos to the Florida East Coast League Championship. […]
I say this all the time, but it’s stories like this that make this game interesting to me. You can take all the Hall of Famers and multi-million dollar contract guys – I’ll take Earl Huckleberry’s one unlikely afternoon in the big leagues anytime. […]
When the Red Stockings disbanded in 1871, Cincinnati found itself without a pro baseball team. It was up to a former Princeton ballplayer and a crowd-funded team across the river in Kentucky to bring pro baseball back. […]
This is a piece I wrote about ten years ago. I included an abbreviated version in my book, The League of Outsider Baseball, and always liked by illustration of the young Tommy. So, without further yapping, here’s my story of Tommy Lasorda’s early career as a southpaw who dreamed of playing for his beloved Dodgers. […]