THREE DECADES AGO, when I was an art student in Baltimore, I had become interested in the city’s Negro League team, the Elite Giants. I had the good fortune to meet many former Elite Giants players as well as the fans who rooted for them. The Elites (pronounced EE-lights) became my favorite Negro League […]
He’s credited with a lifetime Negro League average of .321, Cuban Winter League average of .311 and .311 in games played against white major league teams. If you’re talking about consistent, you’re talking about Clint Thomas. […]
A long, long time ago, I was an 18 year-old art student spending my summer not like all my well-to-do classmates backpacking across Europe or sailing in the Caribbean, but in a sweltering garment factory in Passaic, New Jersey earning the cash for my second year of school. One afternoon on my lunch break […]
Back in the spring of 2016 I was asked to create 16 portraits of Chicago Cubs greats that would be placed on permanent display in the famous Bleacher Section of Wrigley Field. I can’t tell you how much of an honor this is, to be a part of a ballpark as special as Wrigley Field. […]
When doing my annual studio cleaning, I came upon the box of art cards I did years ago. I had made up 25 sets of cards, some of which I gave or sold off. I spent the weekend sorting through the remaining cards and was able to put together 20 sets of 90 cards plus […]
Dear Subscribers, I hope you have been enjoying the inaugural season of the Infinite Baseball Card Set Booklets Series. There are three more booklets left in this first series, and I am hoping to have the final one mailed out in August. From there I will be beginning SEASON 2 which will also have 12 […]
Memorial Day, 2019. When you’re outside today, and hear the sweet “slap” of a ball hitting the well-worn leather of a glove, give a little silent thanks to Sam Kau and all the other Americans who gave their lives over the past 243 years to keep this nation safe and secure. […]
One of my best friends is a nephew of Paul Gillespie, catcher for the 1942-45 Chicago Cubs. Though he had a short career due to war service and then injury in the ’45 Series, Gillespie has his own special place in baseball history as one of just 2 players to hit home runs in their first AND last career at bats. And speaking of bats, look at what just came in the mail today… […]
I just wanted to say that I know it has been a month since I have posted a brand new story. It’s not that I have run out of material, or have gotten bored with The Infinite Baseball Card Set – both of those things are very, very far from the truth. The reason behind […]
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. […]