My Wire-to-Wire Summer with Twelve Stars and A Piece of American History

   “Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.”     ~ W.P. Kinsella { ...from Butterfly Winter }

    When I close my eyes I see stars. ...stars and fireworks. ~ That is probably because since winter I have been spending hours upon hours digging, layering, carving, and coloring hand-painted mosaic tile designs forming the shapes of radiating stars in a firework sparked sky while piecing together memories of the 1990 Major League Baseball World Series.  I did this by using a collection of 12 bobbleheads surrounded by my remembrances of the rows of rainbow seats that at one time encircled Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium / Cinergy Field.
 
   The result is my painting pictured in the slide show below. Its kaleidoscope of colors is a celebration of a time when all the pieces came together and the stars appeared to align for baseball fans in my hometown as their team held a wire-to-wire season ending in a World Series Sweep.  - - I will always remember that historic 1990 Major League Baseball World Championship since my first date with my husband was to Cincinnati's Opening Night game that year.   Needless to say, from beginning to end, it was one Red hot summer and soon after, like the ball playing champs, I also came to sport a diamond ring ( a wedding ring for me ) which I got after a proposal from my same date that Reds Opening Night of 1990. I still wear it. And now these days, safe and happy at home base, I look back on my life’s journey in this world and on that baseball season’s historic finish with a perspective that helps me find countless reasons and endless inspiration to reflect on what someone like “Sandor Boatly” may understand as the “mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival” of that record-breaking wire-to-wire summer.

   I created the 1990 Reds Championship “Painted Bobblehead Mosaic” art as a companion collectors piece to my Great Eight ( plus Sparky ) Big Red Machine Art. Like my artwork for the Big Red Machine team, it also features the Reds Riverfront Stadium, later called Cinergy Field - - only this time the field is showcased from the inside of the stadium and the mosaic highlights the high-tech digital scoreboard of its day.

More about this artwork can be found in the blog:
"Opening Day Delay"



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The old Riverfront/Cinergy Field scoreboard in action:
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   My Great Eight ( plus Sparky ) *Painted Bobblehead Mosaic Big Red Machine Art*: ( Find more about this artwork here in the blogs:

 “Colorful Success”

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“Pieces in The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum”

   This *Painted Bobblehead Mosaic* art concept of mine is something that I originally created years ago when Great American Ballpark housed a collection of stellar pitchers and all-stars who helped lead the Reds to claim the title of National League Central Champions in both 2010 and 2012. ( My first Reds themed painting was of the Reds new Great American Ballpark that came after Riverfront/Cinergy Field… I did the painting back in 2010 and called it “Diamond on the River”. )

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    In my hometown of Cincinnati, where I was born and raised by my Reds loving parents, and where my husband and I Iive and raised our 2 sons, the history of baseball runs deep since it is here in this old American town that history marks as the place where baseball began. One-hundred and fifty years ago, this city along the river came to be the birthplace of major league baseball when the Reds established themselves as the very first professional baseball team beginning in 1869.  

   For baseball fans and teams now well established throughout the United States, lineups like these sweeping 1990 World Series Champs are what dreams are made of.  To help commemorate the 150th anniversary of this game of the American spirit and join in the celebration of the great history of baseball in Cincinnati, I am adding to my series of signature Painted Bobblehead Mosaic Collectors Pieces by creating art prints of this 1990 dream team as well as some other relatively new artwork that reflects on more historic baseball at Riverfront.

    * Read about more historic baseball at Riverfront in the following blogs about my artwork:

 "Opening Day Delay"

“The Timeless Charlie Hustle and the Geometry of a Rose”
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 "Bench Number Five ~ The Earth is a Baseball"

​ "Number Eleven and the Four Elements featuring Barry Larkin"


   ** Follow my Reds themed artwork on the facebook page linked below and when I get back from my 4th of July holiday vacationing on the beach with my family, I will get busy restocking some baseball art in my Etsy shop { …it has been sold-out for some time. }

      Facebook page for Baseball Art: "Cincinnati Reds and Bengals Art by Chrissy Breslin Schroeder"


     …Sometimes I also use Instagram ( @tidesofeternity ) and occasionally the old "Tides of Eternity Art by Chrissy Breslin Schroeder" facebook page or Twitter (@tidesart ).      { <-- where you may find my "social media" - "self-promotion" game is pretty lame...  ; )