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03-02-2006, 09:38 PM
Posted By: <b>V117Collector</b><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Outsider-Folk-Art-BABE-RUTH-NEW-YORK-YANKEES-CHAS_W0QQitemZ7395146154QQcategoryZ357QQrdZ1QQcmdZ ViewItem" target="_blank">Babe Ruth for sale</a>
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03-02-2006, 10:07 PM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I beleive if you label your own art as outsider art and offer it on eBay, it isn't outsider art. Especially if you accept PayPal.
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03-03-2006, 07:01 AM
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>What a riot. The "artist" even got the Yankee logo "N" backwards on the uniform and hat.<br /><br />Rob M.
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03-03-2006, 08:03 AM
Posted By: <b>Chad</b><p>I'd trade some of my Danny Heep cards for it!<br /><br />--Chad
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03-05-2006, 10:09 AM
Posted By: <b>Jon & Jennifer</b><p>The most priceless card in our collection just happens to be a handmade Babe Ruth that our son gave to us about two years ago. I wouldn't sell it for any amount (despite the fact it would carry a premium value as an error card, given the misspelling of Ruth's name.)<br /><br /><a href="http://img489.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bayrouth9gv.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/3407/bayrouth9gv.th.jpg" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>
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03-05-2006, 10:17 AM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>When I was a kid I made my own baseball cards, including of Robin Yount. Involved cutting and pasting magazine pictures on cardboard, with little to no drawing.<br /><br />I remember that as a young crayon artist the Ohio State football uniforms fascinated me. All those little things (Buckeye stickers) on the helmets. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.buckeyecorner.com/images/products/300/7311002_300.jpg">
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03-05-2006, 03:40 PM
Posted By: <b>Chris Mc</b><p>That helmet looks to be 420 friendly!
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03-05-2006, 04:01 PM
Posted By: <b>howard</b><p>You might be onto something there, Chris. Anyone out there ever smoke a buckeye leaf?
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03-05-2006, 04:26 PM
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>The next thing you will tell me is that I have no career as an artist, from my lifelike rendering of a Saskatchewan combine below...<br /><br /><img src="http://static.flickr.com/38/103032971_99d0cdea2a.jpg">
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03-05-2006, 04:55 PM
Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Looks like a fire truck to me <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Jay<br><br>I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.
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03-05-2006, 07:43 PM
Posted By: <b>jpaol99</b><p> Whatever you do don't look at the other "paintings" this guy has for sale besides the Ruth. <br /><br /><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZchas-artQQhtZ-1" target="_new" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZchas-artQQhtZ-1</a" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZchas-artQQhtZ-1</a</a>>
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03-05-2006, 08:22 PM
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>Can you say "crack-head"!
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03-05-2006, 08:33 PM
Posted By: <b>Joann</b><p>And the evidence that I am in the wrong line of work continues to accumulate... <br /><br />Joann
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03-06-2006, 02:36 PM
Posted By: <b>pete</b><p>how is it that nobody is bidding on any of his work? can you spell "sh*tty"?
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03-06-2006, 03:03 PM
Posted By: <b>Jeff</b><p>Go look at his feedback and see that people are buying these "pieces of art" and are HAPPY
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03-06-2006, 03:31 PM
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>One should never be too quick to criticize folk art (ok, so I did it in a post above...but it was just <b><i>so</i></b> bad).<br /><br />In Nova Scotia, in the 1960's, Maude Lewis (1903-1970)would try and sell her folk art paintings for $5, with few buyers. If you google her works now, her paintings sell for $5,000.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.mayberryfineart.com/uploads//img//1138826378_red_sleigh.jpg"><br /><br />She is not known to have done any baseball paintings.
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03-06-2006, 03:47 PM
Posted By: <b>Brad</b><p>I agree with the statment above by Max, even though I made the thread! Wouldn't that be so funny to find out this guys art becomes famous....hmmm<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"always looking for 1923 Maple Crispette cards"<br /><br />
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03-07-2006, 08:44 AM
Posted By: <b>ramram</b><p>Considering that some "art" collectors will pay thousands of dollars for artwork done by elephants, monkees etc. only goes to show that even crap can be considered vogue. These so-called collectors are only an embarrasment to the collectors of real art, not to mention, true artists as well. Of course the irony about the "artists" that produce the "crap art" is that they usually have to be dead before their work is "appreciated".<br /><br />
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03-07-2006, 09:57 AM
Posted By: <b>martin dalziel</b><p><br /><br />I think the real irony is all the judgmental stuff that goes on anytime something thats off norm shows up or is outside peoples' comprehension. Take a quick look at what we collect folks. How come it is not considered 'crap' also? Is it merely becuase there are hundreds of likeminded people on this forum?<br /><br />I'm not saying that people don't have the right to an opinion about whether something is good or not, but when you start lumping people into "so called collectors" categories and try to define "real art" and "real artists" then thats where i get lost. Its all about perspective and defintion.<br /><br />One of the things I collect is beat up baseball tobacco cards - to someone who doesn't understand collecting or doesn't understand how many of us view these pieces of cardboard, what i own is "crap", are not "real baseball cards" and weren't produced by "real baseball card companies".<br /><br />Should i be considered an embarrassment to those that collect pristine high end graded cards, because those are considered "real art" and what i collect is not? I don't think so, and i don't think the same judgements can be made about art either.<br /><br />No real argument here. Just some thoughts.