<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Second basemen are not necessarily known to hit home runs but I had to paint the all-time home run hitters for second basemen.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">On the list are Joe Morgan, Ryan Sandberg, Craig Bigeo, and Roger Hornsby.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This watercolor shows them as hitting second basemen.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Known second basemen are really known for their playing but these could hit the ball. Most of them haven't hit over 200 home runs.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">In watercolor, represent players that stood out in the game of baseball.&nbsp;

Greatest Second Basemen Painting By Manuel Hinojosa (Open Edition Print) + Free NFT

<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Rio Grande Valley had an Olympic gold medal winner. His name was Bobby Morrow. 100 meters 200 meters and also the relay three-time gold medal winner.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">In 1956 at the Melbourne Olympics, he was a San Benito, born and raised athlete. It really falls in line with a lot of other favorites.&nbsp;<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This painting shows all these record holders. All these Olympic gold medal winners, in the Olympics.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">It's a large portrait done in watercolor but it has them all posed as if they were all in line to race against each other.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">These are the greatest sprinters in the Olympic games and all representing the united states in competition.

Olympic Champions Basemen Painting By Manuel Hinojosa (Open Edition Print) + Free NFT

<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sammy Sosa. If you're a Cubs fan you can never forget this great player Sammy Sosa also thrilled the fans with his duel with Mark Maguire for home run lead.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">It went all season long. It had everybody on TV.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">He ended up hitting over 500 home runs but Sami Sosa also was staying with the use of drugs.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">But he still will be remembered as that ball player for the cubs that thrilled fans for many years.

Sammy Sosa Painting By Manuel Hinojosa (Open Edition Print) + Free NFT

<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I'm going to point out a painting that does not belong to me anymore. It was a gift to someone but I still can come back and refer to it. It's a trio in San Antonio that was so strong that it won many championships.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">It was a dynasty for the longest time but it had three great players Who will be in the hall of fame.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">But this was an important painting for me because it had to show all three of them together and depict them in the way that I saw them. If you noticed Ginobili, with his hair waving, you know at the bottom reaching out and going after the ball like you always did.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Then you had parker, the french import that could dribble the ball as a point <span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">guard better than anybody else.

Spurs Dynasty Painting By Manuel Hinojosa (Open Edition Print) + Free NFT

<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stan Musial was a standout with the Saint Louis Kernels.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I like the idea of showing Stan Musial in his pretty swing, playing at St. Louis.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I wanted to show this in a monochrome effect using sepia paint.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I was able to come back in and show the field and the stands with stan Musial at center stage.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Stan Musial, Hall of Fame.

Stan Musial Painting By Manuel Hinojosa (Open Edition Print) + Free NFT

<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">There are **** that stand out, Whitey Ford was one. I saw him pitch at Yankee Stadium when I was a kid. Just seeing him after watching him on Saturday and Sundays on TV and then being live at the stadium was a thrill.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Later on, **** of the great stars, Catfish Conner, and Roger Clemence were really great players for the Yankees.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I wanted to show all these Yankees together in a painting.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I did it in watercolor and the Yankee team was shown in its greatest style with the best pictures that the Yankees have seen.<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">the Yankee bullpen, all Hall of Famers, done in watercolor

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