Diamonds Are Forever: Artists And Writers on Baseball

"A young lawyer I know, asked what it was like arguing before the Supreme Court for the first time, answered: 'Like playing in the World Series.' Baseball is America's language, even its glue. Or as the poet Donald Hall puts it in an introduction to this book: 'It is by baseball, and not by other American sports, that our memories bronze themselves. . . . By baseball we join hands with the long line of forefathers and with the dead.' Diamonds Are Forever, an elegant collection of text and artwork edited by Peter H. Gordon, a curator at the New York State Museum, with the assistance of Sydney Waller and Paul Weinman, is the color catalogue of a traveling exhibit. ... There is something to every taste in Diamonds Are Forever, with its excerpts from 55 writers ranging from Woody Allen to Ernest Hemingway to Carl Sandburg and works by 90 artists, including Andy Warhol, Jacob Lawrence and Elaine de Kooning. ..."
NY Times
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SI: BATS, BALLS, BEAUX ARTS

Clyde Sinder, Minor League, 1946