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- Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Heroes of Hall Collector's Series First Edition Reveal - MyFox Detroit
- Pirates heroes dust off reel classic -- Game 7 of '60 Series - USA Today
- Black action heroes turn into exhibit - Cincinnati.com
| Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Heroes of Hall Collector's Series First Edition Reveal - MyFox Detroit Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:57 AM PST Updated: Tuesday, 16 Nov 2010, 6:02 AM EST myFOXDetroit.com - Renowned sports artist, Doug West, reveals the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame commissioned piece featuring four of the greatest players of our generation. 'Our MVP's' is the first Michigan Sports Hall of Fame-branded sports collectible work of art. Featured in the piece is a quartet of Detroit sports legends who all earned Most Valuable Player recognition in their respective sports. Detroit Lion Barry Sanders and Detroit Red Wing Steve Yzerman were each named league MVP, while Detroit Piston Joe Dumars and Detroit Tiger Alan Trammell were the MVP in their respective sport's championship series. This collectible piece comes in two forms - either a giclée print or artist proof. Both are personally autographed by each athlete as well as the artist, and is available for the first time exclusively through the All-Star auction. Each piece measures 25" high by 30" wide and comes unframed. For more information on the artist and the artwork >> michigansportshof.org/auction_heros_artwork.html This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Pirates heroes dust off reel classic -- Game 7 of '60 Series - USA Today Posted: 15 Nov 2010 07:40 PM PST By Mike Dodd, USA TODAY The same could be said for the audience of 1,300 that packed the Byham Theater in downtown Pittsburgh on Saturday for the first screening of the long-lost telecast of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Eight members of the Pirates' championship team and Richardson attended the premiere that was 50 years in the making. Ever since the existence of the television broadcast of Don Larsen's perfect game was revealed four years ago, the Holy Grail for baseball TV archivists was the game won by Bucs second baseman Bill Mazeroski with the only Game 7 walk-off homer in Series history. Discovered last December in the wine cellar of the late singer Bing Crosby, the telecast lives up to its reputation. It was not just a classic finish; it was a remarkable game with multiple lead changes, turning points and grist for second guessers. MLB Network staged last weekend's event, bringing together the players to tape interviews with Bob Costas that will complement the telecast when the game is first aired Dec. 15. (Mazeroski was forced to miss the screening because he was hospitalized with kidney stones). "It was one of the greatest games ever played here," said Pittsburgh reliever Elroy Face, of the city's continuing connection with that Pirates team. Smith, who will turn 80 next month, said his sons had to convince him to come up from his home in Columbus, Texas, for the screening. When his eighth-inning, three-run home run that gave the Pirates a 9-7 lead was shown, the audience erupted in a standing ovation. Smith's old teammates, seated with him in the front row of the theater, nudged him to stand up and take a curtain call — which wasn't in vogue in 1960. The comments of game announcer Mel Allen, who shared play-by-play duties with Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince, brought a chuckle from the crowd. Allen called the Smith homer "one of the most dramatic base hits in the history of the World Series. … That base hit will long be remembered." It soon became one of the more overlooked heroics in Series history, as the Yankees tied the game in the ninth to set the stage for Mazeroski's game-winning shot off New York reliever Ralph Terry. Sitting on stage, Richardson looked as if seeing the Pirates' five-run eighth inning re-opened an old wound and acknowledged afterwards it was difficult to watch. "You can see some things that could have turned it around," he said. The eighth was the inning in which Yankees shortstop Tony Kubek was felled by a bad-hop grounder on a double-play ball and pitcher Jim Coates failed to cover first base on a slow roller to the right side of the infield. "I always remember that Kubek play the most," said actor Michael Keaton, 59, a Pittsburgh-area native who flew in from California for the premiere. "I was with Jack Nicholson about two weeks ago. I hadn't seen him in five years and said, 'I'm going back to Pittsburgh to watch this game.' He grabs his head and says, 'Oh, Tony Kubek got hit in the throat.' That's the first thing he remembered." The telecast provides ample ammunition for second-guessers of Casey Stengel, in what proved to be his last game as Yankees manager. Yankees fans have long lamented Stengel's pitching rotation for the Series — not starting ace Whitey Ford until Game 3 and thus making him unavailable to start Game 7. Ford, who threw shutouts in Games 3 and 6, warmed up in the bullpen but wasn't brought in even though he said later he could have pitched to a couple of batters. The film also reinforces Terry's comments that he left his game in the bullpen after warming up about five times. It shows him up in the pen as early as the second inning and every inning from the sixth on. And Stengel didn't pinch-hit for tiring pitcher Bobby Shantz in the eighth with two outs Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Black action heroes turn into exhibit - Cincinnati.com Posted: 14 Nov 2010 08:17 PM PST LOUISVILLE - About 15 years ago, the poet and writer Frank X Walker was shopping for toys for his children - but stumbled upon a new hobby for himself. "I remember seeing an action figure," he said, in this case the Falcon, Marvel's first African-American superhero. "I was excited because seeing a black (action figure) just was laughably rare. I remember buying it, putting it away and thinking I would give it to my son as a birthday gift or a Christmas gift." But he didn't do that. He kept collecting others for himself. Suddenly Walker realized he had enough for a small display. "At that point, I became committed to growing the collection," he said. Today, he has more than 200 black action figures, including sports figures and some television characters. Nearly 40 of them are now on display at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. The exhibit, called "Planes, Trains and Superheroes," also features some 100 games, gadgets and toys. It runs through Dec. 31. Walker got into superheroes through comic books. He grew up in Danville, in a home without a television set. "I loved to read, and comic books were a way for me to start building my own library," he said. "I had a milk crate full of comic books in my closet." Many starred the Falcon, who first appeared in a Captain America comic in 1969. Others featured Luke Cage (Marvel's first African-American star of an entire series), who was introduced in 1972, with his superhuman strength and ability to heal from injuries. Then there was The Black Panther, a Marvel character who debuted in a 1966 Fantastic Four comic. He was Walker's favorite because he didn't have superpowers. "The Black Panther, he was well-trained," Walker said. "He was just smarter than everyone else. The Black Panther had his own kingdom in Africa and accomplished something every month." Walker paused. "On my best days, I could be the Black Panther, too," he said. Through the Black Panther, Walker understood things his mother was trying to teach him about community. "I was one of 10 kids," he said. "And our mother always told us that we had to take care of each other and that we had to make sure that we weren't being selfish." Over the years, his students have reacted strongly and positively to his collection, which he now displays in his office at the University of Kentucky, where Walker teaches poetry. One former student was even keen to take on a project Walker suggested to draw images of himself and several other members of the Affrilachian Poets, a writing group Walker co-founded. In the illustration which depicts Walker as a superhero, he holds a large buffalo-headed staff that is a giant pencil and sports pouches on his belt filled with poems. Walker told the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft about his collection when he was participating in an event last spring linked to the exhibit "Searching for the Heart of Black Identity." Walker was among several writers who presented poems in response to the artwork. Brion Clinkingbeard, KMAC's deputy director and chief curator, was immediately interested in what the collection represented. "I thought it was a hoot," he said. "And the fact that he's collecting in this very narrow area made me stop and think about identity, cultural identity, how people see themselves and the world and how the world sees groups of people." The news of Walker's collection and his ideas also intrigued Jess Horsley, managing editor of Action Online, which publishes Figures.com. "Today, there are a lot of black action figures out there based on characters either in comics, sports, video games, film, and TV," Horsley said. "They're probably not that rare, but to look at them through the lens of African-Americans in pop culture is intriguing." Walker plans to talk about the manufacturing of an array of images of African-Americans over the last century, including lawn jockeys, Aunt Jemima, athletes and characters from the blaxploitation film era. And he wants to relate them to how these images influence how people, especially children, see themselves and the world. "What I see when I travel around the country," he said, "is how many kids dress and behave like caricatures they see in videos. And I know that their idea of themselves doesn't come from someplace internal, it comes from somewhere external." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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