The art: Andy Warhol, Baseball (detail), 1962.

The news: Catch Major League Baseball’s official historian John Thorn on tomorrow’s Fresh Air.

The source: Flickr user JoetheLion and collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. (See the whole painting via that link.) Baseball was Warhol’s first photo-silkscreen canvas.

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    detail of Andy Warhol’s Baseball,...artist’s first photo-silkscreen, created in 1962.

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    AAAND one of my favorites in the nelson as well… today is full of Kansas City on my dash…

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