SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing antique copper rivets and then along the right

and then along the right edge the cheers from the crowd: "stick to it"

MA in 1866

born in Versailles

I'd keep him on the corner of my desk hoping he might bring wisdom

SOLD Bob Shawkee Pitching-For-Yanks-1921 Graphite Drawing antique copper rivets and then along the rightI love the game of baseball, and everything about this drawing, most of the strange but very tender handling of the fingers on Bob Shawkey's pitching hand so good. His cap and glove and slightly open mouth are all pretty great too, and the style of the lettering at the bottom just right. Surely done by a Yankees obsessed adolescent boy in 1921, who it gives me pleasure to imagine drawing all his favorite players. 8" x 10", graphite on wove paper with