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Presented is a collection of baseball magazine's collected personally by renowned artist Dick Perez. Includes: Sports Heroes: Summer 1964; World Series Illustrated Review (2): 1962 and 1963; True Magazine's Baseball Yearbook (2): 1951 and 1956; Street and Smith's Baseball Pictorial Yearbook (10): 1947, 1948 (2), 1952-1955, and 1962; Sports Review Baseball (2): 1955 and 1956 issues; Baseball Illustrated: Spring 1967; Baseball Photo Album (3):1960-1961, and 1963; Old Timer's Baseball Photo Album (4): Volumes 1-4; Complete Baseball (4): Summer 1950, Spring 1952, Complete 1961 Baseball, and World Series Illustrated Review 1961;Who's Who in the Big Leagues (2): 1953 and 1955; Who's Who in Sports - Intimate Facts About 600 Celebrities: 1931 Edition; Who's Who In Sports - Produced by the Editors of Sport Magazine (2): 1958 and 1959; Inside Baseball (3): August and October 1953, and February 1954; Baseball Stars (4): 1949, 1950, and 1953 (2); Dell Sports Baseball (2): 1958 and 1967; Baseball Life Stories (2): 1952 and 1953; Dell Baseball Annual : 1955; Baseball Review: 1959; Sports Review Baseball: 1959; Baseball's AllStars: 1958; Great Moments In Sports: Summer 1957; Sport Magazine: Special 25th Anniversary Issue; A Treasury of Sports Stars in Action: 1961; Sport Pix: April 1949; Sport Pictorial: January 1936; Warren Spahn Exclusive Life Story: 1964; Sports Album: Spring 1951; All Star Sports Baseball Issue: 1951; Sports Stars: 1950; World Series for 1937: 1937; The Wind-up America's Baseball Annual: 1940; 1960 Mutual Baseball Annual: 1960; and Reach Wrights Ditson Athletic Equipment: Fall and Winter 1930-1931. Magazines show use with wear along bindings and range from Very Good to Excellent in appearance with some lesser.
Dick Perez Talks About His Personal Baseball Magazine Collection - An Artist's Inspiration
By and large, my baseball art is characteristically historical and therefore dependent on using vintage photographs. My digital photo collection contains close to 10,000 baseball photos and a few thousand covering other sports. My sources were from hundreds of baseball books and books on other sports, Baseball Hall of Fame files, videos, team files, the internet, card companies, and sports magazines.
The images from the many baseball/sports magazines are the ones I treasure the most. Many of the photos in these publications were reproduced one-time only and therefore never seen again. That is until I used them to create my narratives, poses, action scenes, and portraits. I would extract different segments from different photos to create one image the viewer had never seen before.
My only regret in giving up these magazines is that I didn’t read more published articles. They are vital to American sports history.
Dick Perez
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