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.
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why does`nt some energized sports enthusuast review the many bob coyne cartoons in the boston post and develop a book for the fans?
ReplyDeleteI have many of his original layouts for the Boston Herald, as well as some original of his signed artwork done in pencil and ink.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking Bob Coyne the other day. I was talking with his nephew
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