Award-winning artist Kadir Nelson celebrates the triumphant institution that became one of the most successful African-American enterprises in history, the Negro Baseball Leagues. Home to talented baseball players like Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and Cool Papa Bell, crafty owners like Gus Greenlee and Effa Manley, and devoted, adoring fans, the Negro Leagues set the stage for greats like Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays to create history on their own terms.

With these new limited edition prints from Nelson’s New York Times Best-Selling book, “WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball,” Nelson pays tribute to the men and women who defied all odds to create a grand stage that would allow them to play high-class baseball and challenge the ideals of Jim Crow America during the first half of the twentieth century.

Each image will be available as limited edition gicleés on either archival watercolor paper or canvas, or both; with Artist’s Proofs, Remarqués, or Hand-Embellished Proofs. Each print will be individually signed and numbered by the artist and presented with a Certificate of Authenticity.

*These limited editions will be published on July 21, 2008.

**A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the prints, MIGHTY JOSH and KANSAS CITY DUGOUT, will benefit either the Josh Gibson Foundation
and the “Thanks A Million Buck” campaign to raise funds for the John “Buck” O’Neil Education and Research Center.
For more information, visit www.joshgibson.org / http://www.nlbm.com/buck/buck.htm