Since you can out baseball cards on your bookshelf…
SABR’s Baseball Cards Research Committee has bestowed its highest honor — the Jefferson Burdick Award — to legendary artist Dick Perez.
From the Committee’s announcement:
While Dick is best known to many collectors for his fifteen-year run (1982-96) creating Donruss Diamond Kings, these cards only scratch the surface of Dick’s overall oeuvre, which also includes hundreds of Perez-Steele Hall of Fame postcards, other Donruss collaborations such as the 1983 Hall of Fame Heroes and 1984 Champions sets, later collaborations with Topps, and last year’s independently produced Diamond Immortals set.
Back to me.
His work is instantly recognizable and works in both a old-fashioned and modern way.
As the saying goes, I don’t know about art, but I know what I like. And I like the work of Dick Perez. He published a massive volume of his work in The Immortals: An Art Collection of Baseball’s Best, co-authored with William C. Kashatus in 2010. In this case, it’s true that you cant judge a book by its cover.
Here’s the full story from SABR’s card committee.
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