Others of you are well aware of my embarrassingly excessive love of this, The Greatest Game Ever Played.
Either way, welcome.
I hope you have half as good a fuckin time reading this shit as I do spouting it.
*Please note the incredibly wicked cool image in our header, it's Mighty Josh, by the incredibly gifted artist and ball lover, Mr. Kadir Nelson
from his book We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Our header image depicts my favourite player of all time, the one and only Josh Gibson of Pittsburgh's (and Washington's, yeah, it worked like that) Homestead Grays (that's also Josh on the cover of the book), maybe the greatest hitter ever to play, on deck warming up.
More about Josh in the weeks to come.
Much more.
I really like Mr. Nelson's work, and I'm sure you will too, unless you're a TOTAL lameass, in which case, you know, don't let the door hit you where the Good Lord split you etc.
Among many other appealing qualities, Mr. Nelson's work can sometimes resonate with the exceptional paintings of the one and only Mr Ernie Barnes.
(And, naturally, there has to be one of these deals too: Ernie Barnes actually PLAYS Josh Gibson in this '81 TV movie (which we've never seen). Of course he does.)
We strongly urge you to visit Mr. Nelson's site at http://www.kadirnelson.com
Fucking buy something while you're there, you won't be sorry.
Raj
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