by Max Mason | Mar 4, 2011 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
Professional baseball in Washington D.C. has been a notoriously mixed bag. “First in war, first in peace, last in the American League“ was the old saw. And it was true, sort of. The first incarnation of the Senators/Nationals franchise came in last place 9 times in 60...
by Max Mason | Nov 11, 2010 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
Paintings often contain a visible record of past lives. Underneath the finished work is a web of built up edges, bumps and daubs that were once on the outside; a color, a piece of the picture, a part of the space, that are now only visible as texture covered over by...
by Max Mason | Sep 2, 2010 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
GO BEARS! The Korean Baseball Organization, like almost everything Korean, is surprisingly new. Founded in 1981, it is on a par with the Japanese Baseball League, which dates back to 1936. At the time of the KBO’s founding South Korea had a GNP less than Ghana’s. It...
by Max Mason | Aug 14, 2010 | The Ballpark Project Blog
After the euphoria of last nights’ come from behind victory, (down 9-2 in the 8th, the Phils plated 8 in the final two frames to walk off with a 10-9 victory over the Dodgers) the physical misery of Citizens Bank Park’s first game is a distant, forgotten memory. A bit...
by Max Mason | Aug 12, 2010 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
When neighbor Curtis Richins commissioned a painting of Petco Park I was thrilled. That meant going to San Diego- amazing weather, great beaches, dynamic downtown, fantastic parks, and a pilgrimage to Ted Williams’ boyhood home. 4121 Utah , the house where Ted...
by Max Mason | Jul 22, 2010 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
POST #1- Baseball, Painting and Me Rick Miller in Deep Center, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, 1981 During the spring of my first year in graduate school I went down to Baltimore with a friend to watch the Orioles play the Red Sox at old Memorial Stadium. The light on...
