The Aesthetics of Athletics.
Exploring the Beauty of Sports through the Art, Design, Photography & Maker communities. SABR member. Uni Watch contributor.
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Recently, while doing research for my article on The Greatest Comic Book Ad of All Time, I came across this felt recreation by artist Tom Angleberger. Something that good has to be shared.
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With the Knicks one win away from their first NBA Championship in over 50 years, NY Superfans are coming out of the woodwork…
😍😍😍
On this date in 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a No-Hitter, allegedly while on LSD.
Two years later Topps commemorated the feat in their 1972 Baseball Card set.
Today, on Well Loved Wednesday - a 1958 Topps Pete Rose?!?
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I’ll never understand why Topps discontinued support for their Topps Pennant app. The app allowed you to check out game info for all baseball games going back to 1952, and presented game info in a few different cool, stylized ways.
Does anyone else remember this app?
Today on Beauty of a Game, for Fresh Work Friday we celebrate the NBA Finals with some fresh work from artist Elias Stein.
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#NBAFinals #FreshWorkFriday #BasketballArt #SportsArt #SportsArtist
Happy Heavenly Birthday to The Cobra, Dave Parker.
Statisticians still have not come up with an adequate way to fully measure his badassery.
Two Red Sox Rookies: Fred Lynn and Jim Rice.
Lynn and Rice were 1 and 2 in AL ROY voting and both were in the top 3 of AL MVP voting, with Lynn taking home the trophy. To quote Mel Allen, “How about that!”
#TwoForTuesday #Twosday
