Will Elder Plays Ball

In honor of the coming World Series, we're having a look at some signed baseballs here on the blog. To be sure, they're signed by cartoonists and not by ballplayers, but you can't have everything.

Besides bearing signatures, they also have drawings. Little Annie Fanny appears in color on this baseball signed by Will Elder. The ball is available right now on eBay. Buy it today before the Baseball Hall of Fame gets wind of this.

EBay Listing

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LITTLE-ANNIE-FANNY-SIGNED-DRAWN-ON-BASEBALL-ORIGINAL-COMIC-ART-WILL-ELDER-COLOR/271614790435?_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985&_trkparms=aid%3D444000%26algo%3DSOI.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D26944%26meid%3D908ae0bdeed741a9b6673aee87397811%26pid%3D100012%26prg%3D11184%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D271432149161

EBay Item Description

Note:  Enjoy more posts about baseball to welcome in the World Series.

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Eldon Dedini Plays Ball

The eBay auction listing starts out with, "We are breaking up one of the best cartoonists-drawn-on-baseball collections in the world." One of the best? This is a thing? And all this time I thought collectable baseballs should be signed by ballplayers.

Still, I like this idea. A "cartoonist-drawn-on-baseball" (there's got to be a better name for it) by Eldon Dedini is quite entertaining. He's drawn his signature satyr on the ball—twice!—and still had room to sign and dedicate it. At $39.95, that's getting your money's worth.

EBay Listing

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELDON-DEDINI-PLAYBOY-ARTIST-SIGNED-DRAWN-ON-BASEBALL-ORIGINAL-COMIC-ART-/271432149161?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f329de8a9&nma=true&si=UB68sj2DvLx%252F9kdb54zXrlCgzYs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

EBay Item Description

Note:  Who needs a baseball signed by Babe Ruth? Eldon Dedini draws better.

Just to be clear, the Chris Paolini to whom this baseball is dedicated is a cartoon collector and not a kid who writes books about dragons and such. He could still put together a great book, but it would likely be about how to assemble a superb cartoon collection. Put me down for an advance copy.

In case you didn't know, the baseball postseason is well-underway, or so I hear.

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Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts: Pirates and Parrots

"I've always wondered why pirates carried parrots on their shoulders." Thus Linus gets things started in this original comic strip artwork by Charles M. Schulz for Peanuts dating from 1996. The artwork is dedicated to one Chris Paolini--but apparently not Chris Paolini the author, who was too young to be trading in Eisenhower autographs at the time.

Charles M. Schulz, Original Artwork for Peanuts, March 4, 1996,
Inscribed, "For Chris [Paolini] with friendship and appreciation--Charles M. Schulz"

Letter of Provenance 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Peanuts-Comic-Strip-Original-Art-Signed-by-Charles-M-Schulz-Snoopy-Linus-/141072376905?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20d891a449

Note:  I just might have a few more posts about Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts waiting for you here.

Meanwhile, more original comic strip art may be seen here.

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