Donna M 📷

@thelensofdonnam.bsky.social

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Artist: photography, mixed media baseball art, custom trading cards. Purchase inquiries and commissions welcomed. #CardSky Baseball enthusiast, card collector, and #SABR Elysian Fields chapter president. https://linktr.ee/TheLensOfDonnaM

Bernie Williams (left) and Keith McPherson (right) sitting on bar stools, holding microphones, and smiling.
Javier Colon singing and playing acoustic guitar.
Bernie Williams standing and playing his electric guitar
My photo of the Roberto Clemente statue in Newark, New Jersey, combined with a Clemente portrait hand-cut from an Allen & Ginter trading card to create a one-of-a-kind piece of mixed-media artwork.
My photo of the Ozzie Smith statue at Busch Stadium (The Wizard with gloved hand outstretched, set against a blue sky) combined with a portrait of Smith hand-cut from an Allen & Ginter baseball card. Small, circular designs surround the portrait, representing Ozzie’s signature backflip.
Ornaments, garland, and lights on a Christmas tree
My mixed media artwork: photo captured looking down Eutaw Street at Oriole Park at Camden Yards + a hand-cut Cal Ripken, Jr. baseball card
Postcard featuring Dick Perez’s watercolor portrait and pen & ink drawing of Ralph Kiner
A Larry Doby baseball card set on a background featuring the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s red, white, and blue logo. The card itself incorporates several illustrations of Larry Doby wearing a Newark Eagles uniform.
Close-up of a baseball bearing the Yogi Berra Centennial logo nestled in the pocket of a well-loved baseball glove
Four dudes in a cross walk
Three nuts inside a cracked-open peanut shell in the foreground, the Yankee Stadium diamond and stands in the background
A placard displaying the Yogi Berra Centennial logo (which includes a silhouette of Yogi leaning on a bat and wearing his jersey #8) hanging on a plexiglass podium set against a backdrop of the field at Yogi Berra Stadium
Jasson Domínguez batting righty and wearing a pinstripe Renegades uniform. Also shown is a Hudson Valley logo: an HV combined with a raccoon tail.
A portion of the press box at Yankee Stadium. Three rows of reporters are in view, along with monitors hanging from the ceiling. An illuminated star sits next to the last reporter in the first row. The star is a Langs Star, a fundraising vehicle used to pay tribute to Sarah Langs and to bring attention to ALS.
Photo of Len Pasculli and I standing in the theater at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center
Yankee Stadium field and stands. Vantage point: second level, shallow right field. Blue skies, sun, and bunting!
Presentation title card
Flyer with a black and white photo of baseball player Toni Stone making a throw in the field.
Pete Alonso standing in the batter’s box. The photo is combined with a smaller portrait of Alonso cut from a baseball card, the words “Polar Bear” and some snowflakes in the Mets team colors of orange and blue, plus some other complementary colors.
Baseball cards from various years and sets including: 2024 Allen & Ginters of Bob Gibson, Anthony Volpe, Sister Cities Minneapolis and Santiago, and x-rays of an African painted dog and an Inca tern Aaron Judge, and Yankees royalty Yogi Berra, Tony Lazzeri, Don Mattingly, and Thurman Munson
A photo of Rickey Henderson in Yankee pinstripes running to first base combined with a portrait of Henderson hand-cut from an Allen & Ginter baseball card. “Man of Steal” is printed vertically on the right side of the artwork.
Cyndi Lauper in concert wearing green wig and white jacket
Larry Doby’s high school yearbook opened to the pages featuring the school’s basketball and football teams. Doby was on both teams.
An exhibit case displaying various items from the football histories of Paterson’s Eastside and Central/Kennedy High Schools. Most prominently shown are a large Eastside Ghosts banner and a jacket and varsity sweater from Central.
Large meeting room set up for my presentation
The summary of Dan Cichalski’s presentation, “Bruce Springsteen's ‘Glory Days’: From Speedball to Spitball, reads: In recent years, baseball fans and pundits have enjoyed poking fun at the opening lyric to Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days," specifically his use of the word "speedball" instead of "fastball": I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool, boy Some have turned Springsteen’s words back on him, saying no one who follows baseball calls it a speedball; that usage makes you look like a fool, boy. Others have defended it as artistic license, a throwback term used perfectly in a song about nostalgia and reminiscing. Using archival photos, video clips and song segments, Dan Cichalski's presentation, "Bruce Springsteen's 'Glory Days': From Speedball to Spitball," looks at the history of the term, Springsteen's process in writing the song, and his long connection to baseball -- from playing Little League in his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey, to performing at ballparks as a top-selling artist and attending ballgames in recent years.
1954 Bowman baseball card depicting Larry Doby holding a baseball bat and sitting on the steps of the visitor dugout at original Yankee Stadium
Mixed media artwork that combines my photo of Busch Stadium III with Rolen’s portrait hand-cut from an Allen & Ginter trading card. The stadium shot was captured while standing behind home plate facing the field.
Movie poster for the screening of “The Diamond King” at the Society for American Baseball Research’s 2024 national convention in Minneapolis. The poster features a portrait of Dick Perez sitting at a drawing table and holding a pencil. His artwork of Tony Oliva, Bert Blyleven, Jim Kaat, and Rod Carew is in front of him.
Mixed media artwork combining my photo of Shohei Ohtani at bat with his portrait hand cut from an Allen & Ginter baseball card. “Shotime” appears down the left side of the piece.
Mixed media artwork that pairs my photo of Aaron Judge wearing his road grays and running to first base with his portrait hand cut from an Allen & Ginter baseball card. A golden explosion with red and white highlights serves as a background for the cut card.
Mixed media artwork featuring a photo of the Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson statue and portraits of both players cut from Allen & Ginter baseball cards. The statue depicts Reese and Robinson standing side-by-side. Reese has his left arm on Robinson’s left shoulder.
The cracked and worn brownish granite cornerstone from Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. The stone was engraved “Ebbets Field 1912.” The year is quite difficult to make out now.
An advertisement from Apple Computer’s 1998 campaign. Shows Jackie Robinson crossing home plate and shaking the hand of an (out of frame) white man. “Think Different” and the Apple logo appear in the upper right corner of the ad.
Flyer advertising a baseball card and collectibles show at the Charles J. Muth Museum of Hinchliffe Stadium on Saturday, January 25, 2025.
Artwork featuring a photo of Citi Field at night and a portrait of Dwight Gooden cut from an Allen & Ginter baseball card