Dode Paskert Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Portrait nyc library art The cardstock carries that particular

The cardstock carries that particular West Side Grounds gravity

fixing the humble blue cube into a holder worthy of the gaslit billiard parlors where ivory balls clicked beneath green-shaded lamps and a miscue was a small

the states' rights firebrand recast as gentleman antiquity

rendered in the gaunt geometry of a man who had read too many casualty lists

when a December meeting between Pittsburgh and Palo Alto was a continental event

Dode Paskert Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Portrait nyc library art The cardstock carries that particularDode Paskert Cincinnati Reds Baseball Card Portrait 2 a deadball era tobacco card portrait of the Reds' steady center fielder, his likeness rendered in the soft chromolithographed palette that defined the cigarette inserts of the early 1910s. There's a quietness to Paskert's gaze here, the look of an outfielder who patrolled vast, unfenced pastures and trusted his legs more than the fences. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from