Check out the beautiful baseball illustration on the cover of this week's New Yorker
Spring is here, and everything -- the green grass, the blue skies, the blooming flowers -- feels like baseball. So it's only right that the spirit of Opening Day made it onto the cover of The New Yorker this week:
This week’s cover, “Double Play,” by Mark Ulriksen: https://t.co/E8OSzrMKrE pic.twitter.com/qwpe6yv8Nu
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 8, 2019
The magazine has given us a lot of memorable baseball illustrations, from Saul Steinberg channeling his inner kid to Abner Dean roasting a home-plate umpire. Mark Ulriksen's "Double Play" is up there with the best of them, inviting you in to appreciate the details of a Yankees twin-killing attempt against the Red Sox.
Ulriksen grew up in the Bay Area a huge Giants fan, even drawing the outlines of various players in the San Francisco Chronicle the morning after each game. But while he let Mookie Betts beat the throw to first in his illustration, he's not wild about the Red Sox this year: "Afraid not," he told the magazine when they asked him if Boston would win a second straight World Series. "No one repeats these days."
