Book description
A vivid collection of celebrated artist Andy Jurinko's portraits
from baseball's golden age.
Renowned artist Andy Jurinko believed the golden age of baseball
was 1946-1960, an era that, not coincidentally, coincided with his
childhood. It was a time that welcomed such legendary stars as Willie
Mays, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, and Henry Aaron
into the national consciousness, a fifteen year stretch marked by
Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in 1947 and by ten Yankee
championships. Jurinko spent twenty years creating more than 600
portraits of the colorful characters and stadiums that typify this
era, all collected here for the first time in Golden Boys. With
illuminating text by sportswriter Christopher Jennison, Golden Boys is
the definitive artistic portrait of a remarkable time in American
sports history.
