Leaf Satchel Paige vintage wine art Capture of Genl La Vega

Capture of Genl La Vega by the Gallant Capt May at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — a lithograph staged in the bravado of May 1846

seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century

and Main Street tableaus flicker between Mark Twain's gabled house and the Colt armory's onion-blue dome

Grant in Citizens Clothes 1868 finds the general out of uniform on the eve of his first presidential run

These are postcards written from a city built to be photographed

Leaf Satchel Paige vintage wine art Capture of Genl La VegaLeaf Satchel Paige Fa5a a 1948 Leaf gum card catching Paige in the strange aftermath of his Cleveland debut, when the majors finally pried open their doors for a man who'd already pitched a thousand games in their shadow. The cardboard is thin, the color registration loud and imperfect, the legend understated to the point of insult. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for