Awards

• Winner of Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) (Recommended) 2003

Overview

This is a colourful tour of baseball's history, celebrated and illustrated in American folk art and collectables. From pick-up games played by children, Civil War soldiers, firemen and college students to the formation of the first professional leagues, this is a democratic look at the sport illustrated with early baseball cards, paintings, quilts, signs, carved bats and more. The great players are here, too, depicted by the fans who loved them.

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Reviews

How can you paint American history without baseball? asked artist Ralph Fasanella. This well-written, child-friendly history addresses the game of baseball as it relates to the culture of the nation. The evolution of the game is presented, but this is not a play-by-play account. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, the work is copiously illustrated with photographs of artifacts from the exhibition. There are the requisite paintings, drawings, and photographs, but there are also advertising signs and figures, sculptures, illustrated scorecards, games, weather vanes, quilts and needlework, and other objects that are entirely unique. A large number of these works were created by anonymous artists. Folk art is a reflection of the world of ordinary people and baseball has been very much a part of America for almost its entire history. A great addition to the literature of the great American game. (Nonfiction. 8+) (Kirkus Reviews)

Author Information

Janet Wyman Coleman is the author of Famous Bears & Friends: 100 Years of Teddy Bear Stories, Poems, Songs, and Heroics. She lives in Wayland, Massachusetts. Elizabeth V. Warren was the Curator of the American Folk Art Museum from 1984 to 1990, and has been the museum's Consulting Curator since 1991. She is the author of Abrams' The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball, and curator of the exhibition of the same name, opening at the American Folk Art Museum in June 2003.

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