"George Bell" by Andy Donato Cleveland Guardians The September 1949 SPORT Cover

The September 1949 SPORT Cover features Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees

it followed the "cookie-cutter" or "concrete donut" design trend such that its structure was perfectly circular and made to transition easily between baseball and football playing fields

in a photo taken for SPORT magazine

He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school’s athletic department

SPORT was an innovator in sports coverage and print publication

"George Bell" by Andy Donato Cleveland Guardians The September 1949 SPORT CoverThis piece is a high quality giclee reprint on acid free paper of an original water colour painting by Andy Donato. Andy Donato is an editorial cartoonist and is also the former Art Director of the Toronto Sun. Born in Scarborough, Ontario in 1937, Donato began his career as a layout artist for Eaton's before becoming a graphic artistic for the Toronto Telegram and later moving on to the Toronto Sun where he would remain for much of the rest of his