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Jack Davis Baseball CoverFound over at It's a Long Season, check out the second cover of Mad Magazine, from 1952. ...

Morality Checked"The tendency among spoilsport sportswriters is to make it all so so elegiac and bittersweet—to like us to see our own lives (easier for men, of course) in these [minor leaguers'] prospects; to make it all a gooey-nostalgic allegory for trying and failing while still young, an emblem for rum life li...

Richard Ford: Stop Blaming The GameIn 1993, the acclaimed novelist Richard Ford wrote a piece for the New York Times called "Stop Blaming Baseball."...

Aaron Dana's Sports Illustrated

It's a Long Season is a killer tumblr site for you baseball junkies. This morning I saw a post featuring Aaron Dana's work. ...

Cobra '79 T-Shirt

Via It's a Long Season check out this boss T-shirt by Chris Brennan. ...

Happy Bobday

Dylan turns 72. Illustration by Alex Fine, found via It's a Long Season. ...

Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em

Design by Tim Elsass found at the great baseball tumblr site It's a Long Season. ...

Cool Hand Joe

If you've never read Gay Talese's seminal Esquire magazine story on Joe DiMaggio, do yourself a favor and check out "The Silent Season of a Hero."...