On the Diamond: Baseball Art Documenting Our National Pastime

There has been baseball art as long as there has been baseball.

"Under an August dome of heat and humidity, we bounded down our hill to Northside Park. We only had six or seven kids but managed play games. Something rare happened on that field. Our focus on the game made the rest of the world fade away and for a few precious hours there was only baseball."

On the Diamond is a collection of my baseball art. This series began in 2013 at a Yankees v Athletics game and expanded to include Major League, AAA, AA. While I was shooting games, that "world fading away" feeling returned. My focus now is on the art of baseball. I love seeing the early photos of the game: the old stadiums, equipment, billboard advertising ringing the outfield, and the fans. The details give you a feel for what the game must have been like in the day. I hope this collection will do the same for future baseball fans.
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Hometown Baseball

Binghamton and the Triple Cities have a long baseball history. The Phoebe Snow would pull into the Lackawanna Station bringing the Yankees for exhibition games. I grew up with stories of pinstriped heroes rubbing elbows with local fans. Riding along North Broad Street past the left field fence during a night game, produced a flickering illusion of motion inside the park from the spaces between the slats.

Unfortunately, we lost our minor league team for 24 years when the new Interstate ran over home plate. Minor league baseball finally returned to our community in 1992 with the Binghamton Mets playing in our newly constructed stadium. Now the Binghamton Rumble Ponies (NY Mets AA) is my home town team and we celebrated their 30th Anniversary last year.

On the Diamond

by GPpixs

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