Tag Archives: Mickey Mantle

mythologizing camera

Compared to Norman Rockwell for depicting a slice of life Americana, but the comparison is a but unjust; Ozzie Sweet’s work lacks that element of American disavowal and the subtle and hidden eroticism found in much of Rockwell’s illustration. From … Continue reading

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norman the negotiator

Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading

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the boss

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) When I became a baseball fan growing up in Seattle—in the wake of the departure of the Seattle Pilots—I was a regular viewer of The Game of The Week, checking … Continue reading

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double play: two sides to home plate

At one time baseball was America’s national pastime. Bugsy Seigel would go to Ebbet’s field and gamblers and bookmakers were part of the natural habitat of the game. Players almost invariably smoked and drank and advertised for these companies. There … Continue reading

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573 smackers: no evil intentions

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Harmon Killebrew (1936-2011). The former Minnesota Twins (and Washington Senators, and ever so briefly, Kansas City Royals) corner infielder and left fielder died last year at 74 of esophageal cancer. … Continue reading

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