Satchel Paige 1949 Bowman Size:18x24 his wife Julia and their

his wife Julia and their children arranged in the careful symmetry of a household being introduced to the republic it would soon occupy

when Old Rough and Ready's victories along the Rio Grande were already being engraved into a presidency Manifest Destiny had not yet finished arguing for

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

and Fifty-ninth Street collide beneath the navigator's column

The image carries that particular gravity of October baseball

Satchel Paige 1949 Bowman Size:18x24 his wife Julia and theirSatchel Paige 1949 Bowman 384ced a postwar gum card catching the great barnstormer at last in a major league uniform, decades after the Negro Leagues had already made him myth. The Bowman tinting lends his portrait a quiet dignity, as if the cardboard itself knew it was late to the party. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for inventor's drawings, and from the great