media: Acrylic on wood
size: 9″ x 22″
media: Acrylic on wood
media: Acrylic paint on woodWillie Mays
media: Acrylic paint on wood
size: 10.75″ x 16″
“Baseball is a game, yes, but what it most truly is is disguised combat. For all it’s gentility, It’s almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”
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media: Acrylic paint on wood
media: Acrylic paint on wood
media: Acrylic paint on woodBranch Rickey
media: Acrylic paint on wood
size: 5″ x 7″
The Mahatma! Catcher, manager, excutive. Broke baseball’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robsinson. He later drafted Roberto Clemente, baseball’s first hispanic super star. He Also created the groundwork for the modern minor league system. He won four World Series as Cardinals managers and famously said that “luck is the residue of opportunity and design.”
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Alta Weiss
media: Acrylic paint on wood
size: 7″ x 19″
Girl Wonder! Semi-pro debut with all male Vermillion Independents September 2, 1907. Five innings pitched onlu one run given up. Thousands came to see Pro debut at Cleveland’s League Park on October 2, 1907. She threw a natural sinking fastball that baffled the best of male hitters. Alta pitched into the 1920’s and said “I found you can’t play in skirts. I tried and nearly broke my neck.”
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Matt Pence & Will Johnson Photo + Art Show
Matt Pence and Will Johnson are having an art show at Good Records in Dallas on Sunday, August 16th. 7-9pm.
It’s a joint exhibition that will include Matt’s photography and Will’s baseball paintings. There may well be some music involved with the whole thing, too. Stop on down. It’s free!
Good Records
1808 Lower Greenville Ave.
Dallas, TX 75206
(214)752-4663