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A clutch hitter and a clutch fielder, Bobby Doerr could bunt and hit anywhere in the batting order, leading in the rbi column when he was forced to retire....

Tuesday 8 May 2012

Bob Coyne, baseball cartoonist


I was a newspaper clipping junkie before computers wishing now I could thumb through the baseball cartoons of Bob Coyne, who drew pen and ink drawings, many of which are in the Hall of Fame. Now a lost art form prominent before television, he usually drew a big block of small cartoons in the Boston Post. Also I believe in the Herald American, they traced the events in the previous day's game in a large box of smaller drawings in the sports section. I can see now in my mind's eye a drawing of Bobby Doerr flipping the ball over his shoulder depicting the start of another great double play. Coyne, 78, died in 1975 and I see his cartoons are still sought after in the auction houses.

3 comments:

  1. why does`nt some energized sports enthusuast review the many bob coyne cartoons in the boston post and develop a book for the fans?

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  2. I have many of his original layouts for the Boston Herald, as well as some original of his signed artwork done in pencil and ink.

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  3. I was thinking Bob Coyne the other day. I was talking with his nephew

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