Read This Comic: Baseball Comics #1 by Will Eisner
(Previous Read This Comic installments with Bo Jackson and Ken Griffey Jr can be found here and here)
Will Eisner, the legendary comic book writer and artist whose legacy was sadly trashed by The Spirit, once tried to revolutionize the industry by creating a baseball comic around the character of Rube Rooky, an iceman turned pitching star. It’s an airtight premise.
If you’re expecting high literature in the vein of The Art of Fielding, well buddy, you’re in the right place.
From the first page, you know you’re in for a treat with references to “ice-wagons” and coincidental names like Rube Rooky and Pop Flye. Honestly, what other lines of work would employ those men if not for baseball?
When Pop Flye’s boys play the local icemen team, something very common for the day, they’re shutout by Mr. Rooky who was snagged off the street moments before. In a fit of rage, team owner Lana Lash fires Pop Flye, who treats us to some classic misogyny. It’s the stuff that has made Mad Men a bonafide hit:
Pop Flye, now freed from Lana Lash’s outrageous Steinbrennian expectations of victory, hunts down Rube Rooky and starts his working on turning the thrower into a pitcher.
If you’re planning on attending Spring Training next month, you’ll probably see plenty of these activities:
Aww, I remember the good ole days when I’d sling clam shells through a fence post while wearing a blind fold. Though that was more as a punishment tool when I’d forget to take out the garbage.
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