I’ve been meaning to shoot this rag of a baseball, a piece I’d found sometime back. It sat around the studio for months till last weekend when I set up to shoot something else but ended the day shooting objects of interest that had been piling up. After processing the photo, I went looking for old baseball stories, thinking how might this have been used…

The collection of great stories and essays from magazines like Sports Illustrated were plentiful and fascinating. I pulled one about Hank Aaron finally passing Babe Ruth’s home run record. And I imagined my own layout. Here tis.