Christy Mathewson New York NL Baseball Eagles_Fan_Poster The lithograph belongs to that

The lithograph belongs to that strange register of mourning portraiture

shoulder to shoulder

and the breweries along Pestalozzi Street smoking through the river haze of a city that once called itself the Gateway

its defiant grandmothers enshrined in parlor pigment

where two paddlewheel giants slip past one another on the black glass of the Sound

Christy Mathewson New York NL Baseball Eagles_Fan_Poster The lithograph belongs to thatChristy Mathewson New York Nl Baseball 5 a deadball era portrait of the Giants' gentleman ace, the fadeaway artist who pitched like a scholar and carried himself like one too. The image holds that peculiar Polo Grounds gravity, when Mathewson's name on the marquee meant the National League had its philosopher king on the mound. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office for