By Phil Hecken Follow @PhilHecken “If you build it…” I have a very special post today for you all. As you’re all probably aware, I spend a fair amount of …
Category: Sports-Themed Artwork
The Art of Keeping Score — Literally
Matt Maldre appears to be an interesting cat. He lives in Chicago, where he engages in a variety of art projects. He also loves keeping a scorecard during a ballgame. …
Major Find: ‘The Professionals Look at Pro Football’
Click photos to enlarge Way back in the day, the NFL used to put out all sorts of cool promotional publications, many of them with beautiful illustrations. I was lucky …
The Columbus Blue Jackets and the Art of the Poster
For all posters, click to enlarge I mentioned in yesterday’s Ticker that I loved the gameday posters that the Blue Jackets have been putting out. The one shown above is …
Painting Uniforms on Uniforms
Reader Douglas Ford recently alerted me to the work of an artist named Dan Stromme, who has an interesting specialty: He paints sports scenes on helmets and jerseys. Let’s start …
A Great Way To Say ‘Thank You’
Click to Enlarge By Phil Hecken As many of you readers are aware, Leo Strawn, Jr. often sends in ticker contributions for some obscure sports (usually, but not always, Australian …
He Shoots, He Score(board)s!
Click to enlarge Nowadays every stadium has a high-def color jumbotron. Back in the 1970s and ’80s, though, most ballparks had conventional one-color scoreboards that displayed dot-matrix images. An artist …