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MLB ALL STAR GAME
posted: July 21, 2008

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I turned on the All Star game around 11PM (8th inning??) while relaxing in a hotel room on the road last week. Ah, summer at it's best. The past few weeks must have been hectic with deadlines and travel and summer - but it was not until the 13th inning that I remembered that I had some work in this year's All Star Game Program(!). It woke me up enough to stay with the game, which went on for another three days. This piece focuses not on the All Stars - but on what all the other players do during the All Star break. The assignment was real fun to work on... if you call this 'work'.
I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium... The sights and smells and pure excitement - and that drive from Long Island into the Bronx for a seven year old suburban kid has stayed with me. Oh, and it's good to be back on earth.
9 comments
Marc July 21, 2008
Nicely done, Mr. Dykes.
Alan Witschonke July 21, 2008
Looks like the non-All-Stars are having more fun than the All-Stars.
Michael Sloan July 21, 2008
My son and I watched the game on TV in our room at the YMCA in Hong Kong (game time was 8 AM with the 12-hour time difference). We watched a few innings and then went out. Back after lunch we turned the TV on again to hear who won, and were very surprised that the game was still on in the 15th inning. I wish we had a copy of the program so that I could have shown your art to him.
John Dykes July 21, 2008
Michael - I will try to get extra copies - and I'll send you one...(you'll even get a Marc B piece included!...)but if I cannot, I hope you will accept a fine photocopy... ... and thanks folks...
Dale Stephanos July 21, 2008
Wicked pissa John. Welcome back!
Andy Ward July 22, 2008
Really great piece John, i love the way you play around with the scale and perspective.
Zina Saunders July 22, 2008
Your painting has such a nice dreamy quality!
Michael Fleishman July 22, 2008
Hi John! Baseball—the idea of the game of Baseball—always has a dreamy quality to me, particularly the eras of the 30s through the 50s. Nice piece. It resonates with that dream-like quality, even as (maybe because) it approaches the subject of baseball from a seventh-inning stretch. This one is out of the park.
Andy Ward July 22, 2008
Really great piece John, i love the way you play around with the scale and perspective.
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