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Nostalgic Poetry: Spring 2020 Issue of Spitball Magazine

Baseball, of course, is a language of its own, speaking to those who for some divine reason or another hear it clearly and understand....

Yeah, yeah. It's May. I sketched these a while back.

The latest installment in my series for Black College Nines features Marvin Freeman, former standout pitcher for Jackson State University...

I was a decade too late, missed the heyday of these guys playing in the NBA. Except for Alcindor, of course, whom I knew as Kareem...

The smoothest shooter I remember was one of my favorite basketball players - pro or college - during the late '80s/1990s. Chris Jackson,...

Back in the 1990-91 season, every college hoop head knew Mike Iuzzolino and Desi Wilson, including me, the kid who'd never been to...

I take for granted the freedom to travel, to sit on a cafe's patio drinking what I want, to circulate in the world without really...

I've been going down a lot of rabbit holes lately, remembering players and teams from childhood and digging into archival footage to...

I've been more active than I've let on. It's really difficult to describe this month. Unprecedented. Angry art isn't coming out of me....

I've been thinking of and painting snowy winter so far this month. Here are a couple of pieces - acrylic on canvas board - that show...

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