I just finished the excellent biography Willie Mays, the Life, the Legend by James S. Hirsch and was surprised to learn that Mays was a huge comic book fan and would spend hours reading them before and after games. This comic about his early life was published in Sept. 1954, in only his 4th season (out of 22), and I can only imagine what a thrill it must have been for him. Cover by Ed Moritz.
Read the full comic here.
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Georg Arsenius (July 8, 1855 - 1908) was a Swedish painter who made a career out of sports drawings and animal portraits, mostly in France and Sweden.
Here is one of his many fine dog portraits, in an early impressionistic style: Dog, Lying Down - no year (Nationalmuseet, Stockholm)
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happy opening day to old people who keep score in the stands, field pigeons who harrass outfielders during play, snack shack workers, ticket takers, lesbians on game day dates, girls who play on Little League teams, cotton candy hawkers, whoever repairs and replaces the lightbulbs in stadium lights, radio board operators, shitty bisexual stadium DJs, non-American players, transgender fans of all kinds, field maintenance workers who trip pulling the tarp up, abysmal first pitch throwers, Renel Brooks-Moon, people who take the bus, train, or ferry to games, my boyfriend, first time fans, lifelong fans, diva pitchers, diva shortstops, guys who sell hotdogs and merch on the sidewalk after games, minor leaguers, college softball players who are better than all baseball players but never get paid for their contributions to the sport, seagulls who shit on people and then take their french fries, umpires who get silly with it calling strikes, camera operators, stadium janitors, and you.
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this idea is on my mind because of the approaching nhl playoffs but i have had it for some time and it applies to all tournament-style championships. i call it bracket katamari. when a team wins an elimination series they should get to add one player from the team they beat for the duration of the playoffs.
think about it. it is beautiful not only from a narrative perspective but also for pure sports spectacle. beating better teams now means even more because you get to add from their talent pool. instead of a final between two teams ravaged by injury you get the strongest possible competition. the strongest individual players get opportunities to compete for championships even if their teams underperform.
one key aspect: this only works if the victorious team itself (aka the players) get to vote/decide on which defeated player they want to add. if somebody's foisted on them by the coaches or management there's no guarantee the locker room will accept the new addition. plus, then you have additional drama: will the players choose the other team's MVP? someone who can replace one of their own injured players? or do they select a former teammate who was traded? or an iconic player who's never won a championship before? join me in imagining the possibilities! join me in bracket katamari!
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I'm not big, but I wouldn't say I'm small.
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Jules Verne's striking tomb in Amiens shows him breaking out from his own grave and reaching to the sky, a sign of his immortality. Sculptor Albert Roze used Verne's own death mask to make the statue's face.
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Bernard Willem Wierink - Heads of a lion and a lioness (1918)
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Propaganda
Matthew Tkachuk and Leon Draisaitl
They love each other. They hate each other. They have opposite personalities. They were on rival teams. They have always had red and blue jerseys.
Hyacinth Macaw and Scarlet Macaw
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Maud Earl (British, 1864-1943) - A Griffon and a Goldfish
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