Thanks, Mark!! That was one of my oldest pieces on the site, so it makes me happy that people dig it.
I tell ya, he's a lot of fun to paint - he's got such a great look to him. At some point, I'll have to make an image of him hitting the homer off of Lefty Gomez at Yankee Stadium, the one that supposedly landed in the left field upper deck and broke a seat back. It's generally thought that he did so in 1937, though I have yet to research it.
I think Lefty's quote about it was, "I don't know how far it went, but it took someone 45 minutes to go up there and retrieve the ball". Or something to that effect.
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