George Sosnak Hand-Painted 1969 Yankees / Orioles Baseball

George Sosnak (1922-1992) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He devoted his life to baseball, first as a fan of his hometown Pirates and later as an umpire in the Pioneer League (1956-58). Sosnak spent decades as a baseball umpire, and if you are living the baseball life, you have a lot of down time. While waiting to work a minor league game in Idaho in 1956, he was asked by a female fan if he could paint her favorite player on a baseball. The amateur painter said yes and the rest is history. He gave her the baseball as a gift. He went on to paint, and gave away hundreds more. Sosnak's marvelous and incredibly tedious creations all 1 of 1 originals have been displayed at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the American Folk Museum in NYC.

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