Outsider art Folk art Baseball Greats Collection Jim Linderman

Five baseball star outsider art portraits by a woman (a Braves fan!) created in the late 1950s. The amateur artist surrounds each with colorful misshapen borders. Rocky Colavito of the Cleveland Indians, Jackie Jensen of the Boston Red Sox. Roger Maris,then of the Kansas City Athletics, Don Drysdale from the Los Angeles Angels and finally, the great Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs. The pieces were obtained by an auction house back in the 1970s. Apparently there were less than ten pieces at the time. Five drawings on lined paper, mounted on Manilla. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb ORDER JIM LINDERMAN ART and PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS from BLURB

Handmade Baseball Miniature Book Folk Art Scorekeeper 1926

 
 
A young fella keeps track of his favorite team with a handmade record book.  Appears to have been the rainy season.
Miniature Made by Hand booklet inscribed.  Collection Jim Linderman

Art of the Japanese Baseball Card

1949 set of Japanese Baseball Cards.

Yanks vs Cubs 1932 ? drawing of the Big Game

A young boy draws America's game in 1932.  Cubs and Yanks appear on the scoreboard.  The two teams played each other in the World Series in 1932 and 1938, but I am calling this undated drawing 1932 because it was the series Babe Ruth called his home run.  Maybe he did it for the boy who drew this at home listening on the radio. 

Baseball Dart Board Game Vintage Basement Baseball

Basement Baseball!  Junior risks a dart in the eye while waiting for the boys of summer.  
Original snapshot, no date Collection Jim Linderman

Homemade Baseball Peg Game with Rolling Play Dice

Homemade Baseball Peg Game with Rolling Play Dice.  No date, typewriter era!
Collection Jim Linderman

July 4th 1939 Lou Gehrig Day The Luckiest... Anonymous Painting of 1939

Yes, it is July 4th, Independence day, but it is also Lou Gehrig Day.  July 4, 1939, one of our greatest baseball players took to the field and Yankee Stadium to acknowledge the crowds.  Movietone was there to record it, and it obviously moved the young artist here.

The…The…The   
Luckiest…Luckiest…Luckiest… 
Man…Man…Man.  
Lou was sick when he stood before the microphone.  No one had even heard of hockey then, and basketball was still a joke.  We had one sport and Lou was the epitome of it.  Of all his accomplishments, the greatest was that he played 2,130 games in a row.   From 1925 to 1939.  Have YOU ever called in sick?  Lou didn't.  Not once.  And all they had back then was aspirin.

The anonymous painting here, too large for my scanner, was found folded in a "one dollar" basket at the end of a table at a garage sale.  Who would throw this out?
 
Anonymous Child's Painting of Lou Gehrig Day.  Date, possible, 1939  Collection Jim Linderman
 

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Why it is called the "WORLD" Series

I looked it up. Basically, because we said so.

Anonymous snapshot, Japan 1956 Collection Jim Linderman

Victoria Plaza from Passaic and her Proud Baseball Moment

Victoria Plaza's moment came against the Rutherford, New York girls baseball team in Spring 1921. The Passaic New Jersey student pitched a no-hitter. When she woke that morning, could she have suspected her photo would be taken against a wall near the dugout? She seems to be handling her momentary fame with considerable style and grace.

Original photo with pencil caption and date stamp, 1921 Collection Jim Linderman