SOLD Wallie Schang Yank's Catcher Season 1921 Graphite Drawing on Board antique iron nail The puppets appear never to

The puppets appear never to have been used

and to my sensibilities quite a satisfying one to have and to hold

Unemployed in 1935

Really a pretty special one I think

SOLD Wallie Schang Yank's Catcher Season 1921 Graphite Drawing on Board antique iron nail The puppets appear never toI love the game of baseball, and everything about this drawing, most of all the interplay between the lines of Schang's fingers and the pattern of stitching on the baseball in his throwing hand. His pads and shin guards and glove are all pretty great too, plus facial expression that looks quintessentially a catcher's to me. Surely done by a baseball obsessed adolescent boy in 1921, who it gives me pleasure to imagine drawing all his favorite Yankees.