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Gary Cieradkowski

The Bookshelf Conversations: Gary Cieradkowski

September 29, 2020

Given that I have three books out and worked as a newspaper reporter/editor, I guess that serves as proof that I can put words together, but when it comes to art, I can barely draw a straight line with a ruler. I didn’t inherit that gene from my father, who was an excellent sketcher. Then […]

Tagged as: baseball art, Baseball Cards, Gary Cieradkowski

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A belated Lest We Forget

August 25, 2020

Lost in all the drama of the continuing pandemic, presidential election conventions, and other items: August 17 marked the 100th anniversary of the only fatality on a major league baseball field. Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Naps (as the Indians were known at the time) was killed by a pitch from the New York Yankees’ […]

Tagged as: Carl Mays, Gary Cieradkowski, Mike Sowell, Molly Lawless, Ray Chapman, Rick Swaine

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Bits and Pieces, June 25, 2015

June 24, 2015

Another in a series of feeble attempts to catch up on older items. You will forgive the possible occasional duplication from previous entries. First off, well, this is kind of insulting to baseball and books. * Ed Lucas received a lot of attention for his recent memoir, and rightly so. I had a great conversation […]

Tagged as: baseball fiction, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Bill Pennington, Billy Martin, Charlie O'Brien, Doug Wedge, Gary Cieradkowski, Jack Zanger, Mike Matheny, minor leagues, National Public Radio, New York Yankees, sabermetrics, Sandy Alderson, Steve Kettmann, W. P. Kinsella, Wins Above Replacement

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Baseball Best-Sellers, May 29, 2015

May 29, 2015

NEW STUFF: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So… […]

Tagged as: baseball art, baseball business, Baseball Cards, Bengie Molina, Billy Martin, Boston Red Sox, Gary Cieradkowski, Jorge Posada, Michael Lewis, minor leagues, New York Yankees, Oakland As, Pedro Martinez, Pittsburgh Pirates, Ty Cobb, Yadier Molina

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Review roundup, May 27, 2015

May 27, 2015

Kind of weird: it’s almost June and still no baseball book reviews in The New York Times? I know space is precious on those pages, but still. There are any number of worthy candidates. Get on it, Times. In the meantime: From the Rockford, Ill., Rock River Times, this piece on Steven K.  Wagner’s Perfect: The […]

Tagged as: Baseball Cards, Bengie Molina, Gary Cieradkowski, Jeff Katz, John Paciorek, Tommy Lasorda

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The Bookshelf Conversation: Gary Cieradkowski

May 26, 2015

This is a wonderful age we live in. A decade ago, I never would have been able to meet someone like Gary Cieradkowski, the artist who created The Infinite Baseball Card set and author of the newly-published The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes. I’ve known Cieradkowski for several years […]

Tagged as: baseball art, Gary Cieradkowski, infinite baseball card set

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Ain’t misbehavin’

April 24, 2015

“No one to talk with, all by myself…” Didn’t post a Bookshelf Conversation last week, and won’t have one this week either. That’s a shame because I enjoy a good chat with creative people, getting to know what their process is, how they go to this point in their work, etc. As a sneak preview, […]

Tagged as: Gary Cieradkowski, Jeff Katz, Jennifer Ring

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“Got it, got it, need it…”

February 28, 2012

I don’t know if the young collectors nowadays recite this mantra as they go through their friends cards, but back in the day… Gary Cieradkowski, the artist behind the Infinite Baseball Card Set, is having a finite sale of his work. As I’ve written in the past, these are exquisite and imaginative little works of […]

Tagged as: Baseball card, Gary Cieradkowski, Infinite Baseball Card

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