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Jack Higgins 1994
Baseball Strike
Editorial Cartoon Art |
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Item Details |
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CIRCA
- 1994
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ARTIST -
Jack Higgins
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PUBLISHER
- Chicago Sun-Times
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SIZE
- 11-5/8"
x 14-1/2"
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$100.00.-$150.00
Excellent condition
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This original artwork
was done by Chicago Sun-Times editorial
cartoonist Jack Higgins. He received
the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial
Cartooning in 1989. The
artwork addresses the Major League
Baseball strike that stopped the season
in August of 1994. The editorial
comment within the artwork, is based on
the last stanza of Ernest Thayer's
classic poem "Casey at the Bat" with
changes that read:
"Oh somewhere in this world cheers a
happy baseball fan
beyond the far
horizon in a place that is called
Japan.
But here our voices are still,
we no longer cheer and shout.
There is
no joy in Mudville, the game of
baseball has struck out."
The work depicts 3 fans walking out of the ballpark, which has a Chicago Cubs'
Wrigley Field likeness. Editor notes in the margin state: "Thursday Commentary 6/18 x 4 1/2 Hig 15
No Caption" The editorial cartoon
was published in the Chicago Sun-Times
on Thursday, September 15, 1994. It was also
published on page 6, in the Northwest
Herald, a Woodstock, Illinois newspaper
on Mon, Sep 26, 1994. The work is
signed Higgins in the lower left over
whiteout, below Chicago Sun-Times.
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1994 Baseball Strike
Jack Higgins Editorial Cartoon
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Page 6 - Northwest Herald
Newspaper Mon, Sep 26, 1994. |
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