Ad #illustration for the Westland Wapiti, Yeovil UK. Makes me dizzy just to look at it! (The Aeroplane, October 16, 1929. Artist: John R?) — #avgeeks

Big Daddy, USMC — "Here’s the biggest player on the field at practice sessions of the Navy-Marine All-Star team. He’s End Gene Lipscomb, 6 foot 5 inches tall, 267 pounds. Lipscomb came into the Marines from Miller High in Detroit, Mich. He’s from Camp Pendleton." (San Diego Union, July 19, 1953)

You don’t expect a submarine on Lake Erie, but here it is: USS Cod, #WW2 museum ship, Cleveland waterfront.

Any idea of the aircraft, #avgeeks?

Citizen Screen@citizenscreen.bsky.social · 7d ago

Veronica Lake promotional photo for Mitchell Leisen’s I WANTED WINGS (1941).

Ad #illustration for Pratts ethyl gasoline. (The Aeroplane, September 11, 1929. #Artist unknown.) — #avgeeks

Happy Book Birthday, Ronnie!

University of Nebraska Press@univnebpress.bsky.social · 7d ago

Happy first book birthday to BIG LOOSH by @jimleeke.bsky.social! BIG LOOSH recounts Ron Luciano’s unlikely career, detailing his life as athlete, arbiter, sportscaster, writer, and mythmaker while separating fact from fiction.

Who's going to put this on a tee or sweatshirt? — Ad for Heston Air Park, outside London. (The Aeroplane, August 28, 1929. #Artist unknown.) — #avgeeks

Manuscript submitted! Look for Frank's bio next year from Texas A&M University Press. — #avgeeks

From research for his bio: “Big Daddy (Eugene) Lipscomb (Los Angeles, 1953-55; Baltimore, 1956-60; Pittsburgh, 1961-62) is regarded by most experts as the strongest man ever to have played pro football. He stood 6 ft. 6 in., weighed 288 pounds! He died May 10, 1963.” — Bob Sudyk, King Features, 1963

Float plane in ad for Exide Batteries, UK. (The Aeroplane, September 11, 1929. Artist unknown.) — #avgeeks #illustration

Nearly a century old, but a Ford Tri-motor is still impressive when you stand beside one. Liberty Aviation Museum, Port Clinton OH USA, 2014. — #avgeeks

De Havilland DH98 Mosquito and Messerschmitt ME 262A Schwalbe (Swallow), Tuesday, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton OH USA. — #avgeeks

I understand baseball and tradition. I also understand racism and fascism. Shame on the Dodgers … again.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Dave Roberts and Mike Walter are with Trump. Shohei is in attendance too.

“Fifinella—the official mascot of the Women Airforce Service Pilots—was originally created for the 319th Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment stationed at the Municipal Airport of Houston, Texas, in January 1943.” 1/2 — National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

Baseball abstract (right field corner), Huntington Park, 2021.

It’s Trimotor Tuesday! Ad illustration for the Westland IV. (The Aeroplane, August 28, 1929. Artist unknown.) — #avgeeks #illustration

⚾️ in Bizarro 🌎

Colin Smith@colinsmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

By Jerry Siegel, Wayne Boring & Stan Kaye, from 👇

Crude metal toy, circa 1930s, apparently modeled on the Texas Company (Texaco) fleet of aeroplanes. Rests on my filing cabinet for good luck as I finish writing my bio of aviator Frank Hawks, who flew for Texaco. — #abgeeks

So half time of extra time after stoppage time. What a strange sport. ⚽️

Ad #illustration for Fairey Aircraft, UK, (The Aeroplane, August 28, 1929. Artist unknown.) - #avgeeks

Another storm in central Ohio, clearing the heat and smoke.

These two #ww1 doughboys didn’t make it into my book, Battlefields: The Chicago White Sox and the Great War. But you’ll find lots of great photos instead. Out now from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social.

"Boy, it's hot. This is hot. It never got this hot in Brooklyn. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot." -- Neil Simon, Biloxi Blues

De Havilland Hound. Ad for the Airscrew Co., Surrey UK (The Aeroplane, October 24, 1928. Artist unknown.) — #avgeeks #illustration

#avgeeks #illustration

Colin Smith@colinsmith.bsky.social · 4w ago

Van IJsendijk's Koffie en Thee (coffee & tea) by Allan Harker, 1935.

Gorgeous ad for Fairey Aircraft, UK. (The Aeroplane, December 5, 1928. Artist: G. Wallcousins.) #aviation #art #avgeeks

Baltimore Colts Coach Weeb Ewbank said huge defensive tackle Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb gathered up the entire backfield, sorted through them, and kept the man with the ball. (Cleveland Press, November 17, 1958. Artist unknown.)

Nothing better I could share today. Perfection.

Traces of Texas@tracesoftexas.bsky.social · last mo.

That time WIllie and Asleep at the Wheel played Pancho and Lefty .. youtu.be/TQt3d9fQu64?...

Thanks to @buckweaver.bsky.social for the invitation! ⚾️⚾️⚾️

Jacob Pomrenke@buckweaver.bsky.social · last mo.

First, we’ll have a terrific Authors Panel with @jimleeke.bsky.social and Bruce Allardice on August 1 at the SABR 54 convention in Cleveland. They have each published new books this spring about the Chicago White Sox before and after the 1919 World Series. sabr.org/convention/s...

Requested an interlibrary loan five years ago of a couple of books written by newsman and commentator Lowell Thomas. This one was signed, something I’ve rarely seen in a circulating book. Love the green ink. It was a thing, 80-100 years ago.