Greenberg TSN art

[laughlinfan]

Happened to catch the documentary "Jews and Baseball" on PBS a couple of weeks back, and it showed the attached Sporting News article from 1935. It reminded me that last year I picked up a few pieces of Sporting News artwork, and subscribed to Paper of Record for a few months to find out when the art was used. One of the pieces was the facial illustration by Lank Leonard of Greenberg used in this issue - I was happy to be able to match the art to the article. Seems like it was a standard practice to save off some of the art in their files for future use - I did find a couple of drawings that were used again in later issues.

[baseballart]

Cool item. Much of the TSN art has survived and has made its way into the secondary market.

As for Paper of Record, if you become a SABR member http://www.sabr.org, you get free Paper of Record access as part of your membership.

Max

[laughlinfan]

Thanks, Max! I did actually look at a SABR membership, but (foolishly!) thought I could do all of my research in a month. It was OK as I was OK downloading page by page issues that were 12-18 pages (the 20s and 30s) - once I got to the 32 and 64 page issues, my progress slowed down significantly!

It has been a lot of fun seeing some of the cool things that TSN had in their archives in the past year or two - picked up some nice small art pieces and a few photos that have called to me!

Marty