In a perfect world, I'd be celebrating Opening Day at Target Field in Minneapolis, scarfing down hot dogs and watching the Twins beat the Cleveland Indians. But since I'm fourteen hundred miles away, and can't even get the game on TV without coughing up a hundred or more bucks, I'll settle for reading this story from Will Eisner's Baseball Comics #1.
Back in 1949, Eisner decided to publish a couple of comics under his own imprint. Only two appeared, this one and an infantile thing called Kewpies. If Kewpies contained any work by Eisner himself, it's not readily apparent, and the mag is best forgotten. Baseball Comics, though, is very nicely done, and, aside from a few pages of filler material, is Eisner through and through. He even drew the ads, which you see after the story.
As one those ads tells us, a second issue was planned, but lousy distribition sounded the line's death knell. Baseball Comics #2 had already been completed, though, and was finally published by Kitchen Sink in 1992.
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