Limited edition of 400.

Also, There was a nice article written about me and my work on Boston.com's local section which covers my hometown of Somerville, Ma. 

Check it out: www.boston.com

I reorganized much of the store in my website recently.  The amount of work I now have available was creating quite a long page - I felt too long to expect people to have to scroll through.  I instead am now organizing prints (framed and unframed) by team.  This way, you can select your favorite team and browse that way.  Also, the framed prints are taking off and I'm really happy about it.  I know now that people really like the convenience of buying art "ready to hang".  I'm going to do my best to have framed prints available for every design I do.  If your considering purchasing a print as a gift for somebody or even for yourself, I would consider the framed option.  

I did a short radio interview this week with WJBC, Illinois Cardinals flagship station.  If you havent heard it, feel free to check it out here:  WWW.WJBC.COM

Lastly, I wanted to once again ask for everyones help promoting my work.  I dont have much in terms of advertising, so I depend on word of mouth.  If you know a baseball fan, or somebody looking to buy a gift, please send them my website (www.sportspropaganda.com).  Perhaps post on facebook, twitter or just by email the link to somebody. Trust me, it is much appreciated!  Thanks again for all of the support, I want to continue to bring new and exciting art to baseball fans!

Each design is made unique by the teams log, cityscape, World Series wins as well as the teams retired player numbers.  Along with these four, I have already completed the design (not the printing) on the Twins, White sox, Yankees, Dodgers and the Tigers.  By the way...If the "established" date for your team looks odd to you - take it up with MLB, all of these came from them.  Apparently the MLB standard for "Since Year" statements concerns when the city first had an MLB team, not when a particular franchise began.  Seemed odd to me, but I digress.  Anyway, I'm going to start printing one of the designs tomorrow morning and hope to have it ready for purchase by the weekend.  Hope you like them!  

The Topps project is coming along nicely.  MLB has just about approved all of the 30 designs and the prints should be ready sometime in October (along with my own "insert" set of baseball cards!!)  I'm going to be printing like crazy soon so I'll need to order paper next week.  If anybody wants to drive it up from my supplier in PA and save me a ton on shipping - feel free :)

  

Last week I submitted two new designs to MLB for approval... Mariano Rivera as well as Hanely Ramirez.  I'll post a peek when I get a little closer to going to production with them.  In the meantime, I'm hoping to get started on a pretty large size project with Topps, the trading card company.  As soon as I get started and know the parameters of the project for sure, ill post something.  

Here in Boston baseball "season" is officially underway.  Since the Celtics and Bruins were knocked out of the playoffs within a few days of each other, all the focus is on the Sox and David Ortiz's .185 batting average.  Seriously folks, its June 1st tomorrow - this is a serious slump.  One thing about a slump like this is it now affects me a bit more directly than it ever did before.  I've noticed that a players short term performance can have an effect on sales of my art.  In contrast to Ortiz, my Jason Varitek print has been selling a faster pace than usual.  I do think it has something to do with him having a surprisingly productive year at the plate thus far.  Interestingly enough, the three Stadium prints I've done so far (Fenway, Yankee Stadium, Wrigley) have sold pretty steadily without a spike or dip.  In the end, I cant control the batting averages... just the quality of the art :)

I am considering which players to design next.  Typically I have to consider which players I've designed already and which teams have the most fan support.  I also look at contract length of each player.  If a players contract is up at the end of the year, it doesnt make alot of sense for me to invest the time and materials on him.  Once a player switches uniforms, the prints of them on their old team, not surprisingly become less desirable (see my Manny Ramirez design). 

 So in closing... I'm asking for your help... below is a link to my website where I put a poll where you can vote (mlb blogs doesnt allow HTML...  grrrrr).  If you have a write-in vote, put in the comments for this entry.  VOTE HERE!