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Willie Mays : art in the outfield by Shannon, Mike, 1951- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p class="null1">Lively and unusual art inspired by baseball’s best all-around player.</p> <p>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 while with an equal ability to outrun and catch what would have been home runs for opponents most famously when he turned Vic Wertz’s titantic 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.</p> <p>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

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Author

Shannon, Mike, 1951-

Publisher

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817315405

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Biography

Rating

4.6 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14