Showing posts with label George Brett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Brett. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Baseball Art

When I working on the last Music Friday, I checked out Centro-matic's website, and there's a portal on the site that leads you to the artwork of Will Johnson, the head man of Centro-matic/South San Gabriel.

It's great stuff.

He paints pictures about baseball players as you can see by trolling http://www.willjohnsonart.com/.

With his permission, I've provided some images of them below, but you can get the best look at them by going on the website.


Vida Blue was one hell of a pitcher.


For the Cardinal fans out there, I thought you'd appreciate the painting of Al Hrabosky.


For me, of course, I'm drawn to Banks.


A lot of the paintings are sold, but after looking at the list of them, I'm fantasizing about having a man cave with one or more of these paintings in it.

I'm considering who I would want even though I doubt Johnson paints them on demand. Nor do I have the disposable income at this moment to buy one. Those damn kids keep needing clothes and shoes.

Though I've always liked Sandberg, my favorite Cub is Andre Dawson, which is clear if you read "The Hawk Has Landed."

One of my favorite baseball cards, which I rediscovered after helping clean out my parents' house, is the 1980 George Brett card, the year he flirted with hitting .400.

And even though I don't like the Cardinals, I think Bob Gibson was one of the best pitchers ever. That man was intimidating.

Monday, March 15, 2010

George Brett


Although I'm a well known fan of the Cubs, I grew up liking the Royals. Willie Wilson. Frank White. Hal McCrae. And George Brett.

I remember the year when Brett flirted with hitting .400 in 1980 (he finished with .390).

While I enjoy viewing a good freak-out, I tire of the pine tar incident because fools remember him because of that weird happening.

He was a great baseball player.