Silverstein Plays Ball
June, 1962
Dressed to the nines in pinstripe baseball flannels and toting a well-padded mitt, cartoonist Shel Silverstein recently trekked to Sarasota, Florida, for a five-week spring-training fling with the Chicago White Sox. This trial introduction to the innings and outs of big-league ball was for Shel a boyhood dream of glory come true: while still a beardless Chicago youth he earned his daily bread vending beer and hot dogs at Comiskey Park, the White Sox balliwick. According to our hirsute hero, he c...
