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List Price: $29.95Amazon.com's Price: $21.86 You Save: $8.09 (27%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092
EAN: 9780817315405
ISBN: 0817315403
Label: University Alabama Press
Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 89
Publication Date: March 25, 2007
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Sales Rank: 731372
Studio: University Alabama Press
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As much as any other sports figure, Willie Mays embodies the changes that racial integration brought to America's game fields and its larger culture in the mid-20th century. Playing baseball with grace, skill, flair, and obvious delight, Willie Mays broke color barriers for more than just himself. He combined the ability to stroke majestic home runs with an equal ability to outrun and catch what would have been home runs for opponents - most famously when he turned Vic Wertz's titanic blast into a long out in the 1954 World Series. As is often said of great players but never more true than in his case, Willie Mays could do it all. Assembled in this work are 40 representations of how contemporary artists respond to and portray the skill, fame, and sheer love of the game that make Mays so remarkable and memorable. The art includes a broad range of styles and media - from impressionistic graphite pencil drawings on paper through realistic Kodachrome photographic prints to expressionistic colored acrylics on canvas or glass. Mike Shannon offers a perceptive introductory essay on Mays' long career and places the art in the context of his times. First curated as a traveling exhibit to honor Willie Mays' 75th birthday, the exhibit opened at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and is currently on tour.
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