Baseball Card Art

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

I have two major collecting focuses (foci?): Vintage Washington Senators and the men who became the first black baseball players to play for each of the major league teams. When I first discovered mosaics made from cut baseball cards, made by Ben Caraher, I commissioned two, one for each focus: Walter Johnson's 1914/5 E145 Cracker Jack and Larry Doby's 1949 Bowman. Both are now framed and hanging as key pieces of the two collections in my home in SC (which I am not now at). Walter is shown below and Larry is my Net54 icon.

I was very pleased with Ben's art and followed up by commissioning two more pieces which I gifted to sons-in-law. One was Goose Goslin's 1933 DeLong and the other was a poster of Rickey Henderson featuring an image of Rickey immediately after setting the career stolen base record. I do not have an image of the Goslin piece on my VA computer, but the Henderson piece is shown below.

I picked the Rickey piece because one son-in-law had grown up an Athletics fan and had the poster hanging in his bedroom for years after his mother had gotten it signed by Rickey. Of course, the signed poster had disappeared sometime around college, etc. The mosaic takes its place.

Tim Carrol's art is fabulous, but I think Ben Caraher runs right with him. Or at least did; I am not sure that Ben is still creating mosaics.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1682608996
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1682609075

Fully agree....

Ben is right up there with Tim Carroll. Beutiful examples of Walter and Rickey!