[Rarebooks] FS: Baseball/Photography/Fine Press book

[Isabel's Books]

Oops. I don't have a good sense of the history of baseball, and my googling was obviously unsuccessful - I DID find someone claiming that Mantle was #25. A little more searching and it appears to be Joe Pepitone -- a lot less interesting, but still a really cool book.  The series was in 1964, which is what I was basing my search on...
 
Michael

Don & Sue Gallagher <gallabks at dimensional.com> wrote:
Michael,

I'm sure I won't be the only one to say this. Mickey Mantle wore #7, and as
a center fielder he never would have been in a position to tag a baserunner.
Maybe he played some first base near the end of his career. And Lou Brock
played for St. Louis after breaking in with the Cubs. Since they played in
different leagues, the Yankees could have been tagging Lou Brock only in an
All-Star game or a World Series. There was only one such series, I
think, -- '66 maybe -- during Brock's career.

I'm not sure who #25 might be. It'd depend on the timing of the pic. Today
it would be Jason Giambi.

Don


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> Melchert, Jim. A Scratch on the Negative. Oakland, Calif.: Crown
> Point Press, c1974. Oblong folio (13 ¼ inches tall by 17 ½ inches
> wide). Black paper-covered boards. [22] pages. FINE.
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> Melchert, former chair of the art department at the University of
> California, Berkeley, former head of Visual Arts at the NEA, and
> former director of the American Academy at Rome, is perhaps best
> known for his broken-tile artworks. In this book, he has taken a
> single image, of a New York Yankees player (#25, presumably
> Mickey Mantle) tagging (or attempting to tag) out Lou Brock, and
> has presented nine images, progressively more narrowly focused,
> with the ultimate image just a series of dots, resembling a photo
> of stars. A limited edition of 25 copies, ten of which are
> artist’s proofs. This is one of those ten. Signed by Melchert on
> the colophon and inscribed by Melchert on the title page.
> Photographic plates by Ron Greenberg. Etchings printed by
> Patricia Branstead. Letterpress by Deward Drollinger. Binding by
> the Schuberth Bookbindery. A stunning production, equally
> desirable for aficionados of fine press, baseball, photography,
> and artist’s books. In a mylar protective cover.
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> $600.00 postpaid.
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