(re)Designing Negro League Logos
Here’s a look at some new t-shirt designs I just finished along with the story of how I created one of them. […]
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Ralph Branca: Because he was strong enough.
No other moment in sports history comes close to that single game in October, 1951. Countless non-fiction books have been written about the ’51 pennant race, the game, what happened to the home run ball, and the players after the cheering died down. Thomson’s home run has been employed as a plot device for shelves of fiction novels and TV shows, and hardly an autobiography of a person alive in 1951 could escape mentioning where they were on that day. […]
Bill Niemeyer: Memorial Day 2023
The boys of G Company probably didn’t care much about the reason why the Germans still fought them tooth and nail, but each man had had his life interrupted and shipped halfway around the globe to stop an evil that was threatening to swallow the whole world. […]
New T-Shirts
Here’s a look at the new series of t-shirts I did for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Find out why I picked these players as the first five of the series. […]
New Color Prints Available!
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. […]
On the Drawing Table: Ebbets Field Scoreboard
While working on an illustration of Gil Hodges, I became fascinated with the iconic Ebbets Field scoreboard. Wandering off on a tangent, I did a series of illustrations documenting the evolution of the famous scoreboard. […]
On the Drawing Table: The Pee Wee Reese Report
Here’s a look into what I’ve been up to lately – designing a newsletter for the Pee Wee Reese Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. […]
Babe Ruth: Becoming the Babe
There was no more famous Baltimore Oriole than Babe Ruth. The 19 year-old got his start with Jack Dunn’s Birds, and between Dunn and catcher Ben Egan, Ruth quickly developed into the hottest pitcher in the minor leagues. However, competition from the Federal League led Jack Dunn to sell his greatest find, causing a lifetime of resentment and the reason why he would hold on to so many of his stars long past the time they should have gone to the major leagues. […]
Ted Kluszewski: Film holds the “Klu”
In 1951, Ted Kluszewski was mired in a batting slump that threatened his once promising career. Then one evening his wife, Eleanor, had a solution that would save both her husband’s and countless other ballplayers’ careers. […]
Gil Hodges: Keep the commandments, and pray for Gil Hodges
After recovering from one of the worst batting slumps in baseball history, Gil Hodges finished up his comeback 1953 season in a unique fashion: joining a mostly Black team for a 36-game tour deep into the Jim Crow south. […]