by Max Mason | Jun 23, 2022 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
“Vender, Comerica Park, Detroit”, oil on canvas, 48″ x 60″, 2017 I have always liked watching the game from high up. You see the geometries better. The sense of space is exaggerated. When the ball is put in play two cycles of motion...
by Max Mason | Feb 27, 2012 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
A lot of people were dubious when the Minnesota Twins announced plans to build a new, downtown, open air ballpark. The pneumatic Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome is not beloved for it’s cozy architecture (it is still the home of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings). It is,...
by Max Mason | Oct 24, 2011 | The Ballpark Project Blog, Uncategorized
As a kid I visited my grandparents in suburban St. Louis every July. Gloriously free and grown up, I roamed about basically unsupervised day after hot, humid day. After doing a chore or two I’d head to the drug store in town and buy as many packs of baseball bubble...
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...
