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Fugue for the Pepper Players
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40"
x 30”
Baseball Hall of Fame Museum, Cooperstown NY
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Kid with a New Glove
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The
kid (a boy or a girl as the viewer chooses) expresses joy both in the
achievement of acquiring the long sought after glove, and in the
anticipation of further joys to come.
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36"
x 24"
Collection of Dr. Harris
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Moon And Memory
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Yogi
Berra once said, "I can't think and play baseball at the same
time." The player
depicted is tracking down a fly ball without thought getting in the way.
This painting features the use of the golden ratio and a related
mathematical progression, the Fibonacci series.
For example, the discrete volumes of the ball represent a Fibonacci
series as the ball rises and descends toward the glove.
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40"
x 30"
Collection of Dr.
Harris
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Third Base Coach
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Gestural
signs are an important part of baseball.
One of the main tasks of the third base coach is to communicate the
current strategy of the manager in the dugout to the batter and base
runners. Here, the third base
coach is represented as an abstract flurry of signs and decoys.
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36"
x 24"
Collection of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Tucker
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Cool Papa Steals Time
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James
"Cool Papa" Bell was one of the greatest players in baseball
history. Because of the
refusal by major league baseball owners to allow black players to play in
their leagues, Cool Papa was forced to play his whole career in the Negro
Leagues. There, playing
against competition that was at least as good as that in the major
leagues, Cool Papa was brilliant. His
speed as a baserunner was legendary - he was likely the fastest man ever
to play the game.
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40"
x 30"
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. M. Jacobson
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The Mockingbird Sings to the Relief Pitcher
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Once
a teammate (from Alabama) told the artist that it was bad luck for a
ballplayer to hear a mockingbird sing - the inconsistency of the bird's
songs was contagious and the player would soon begin to play in the same
manner. Later, two other
players, one from Louisiana and one from North Carolina, told of similar
superstitions. The pitcher in
the picture isn't happy to test the validity of this theory.
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48"
x 30"
Collection of Mr.
and Mrs. Zadina
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The Flyhawks
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A
series of snapshots in time, shown on a single canvas.
This painting circumvents the traditional constraints which limit
the subject to a single static instant.
The ballplayer’s arm progresses from hanging ready at his side to
a position prepared to catch the ball, as the ball follows its trajectory.
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48"
x 30"
Collection
of
Mr. and Mrs. M. Jacobson
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Stone Game
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Collection of Tom Williams
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Boning the Bat
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36"
x 24”
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