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June Issue 2006
McKissick Museum in Columbia, SC, Offers Exhibit on Baseball Stars
From Babe Ruth to Alex Rodriguez and from sandlot fields to shiny new major league stadiums, baseball is a vibrant part of American life and culture. The University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum, in Columbia, SC, will share one story of this national pastime in a new exhibit, The 521 All Stars, A Championship Story of Baseball and Community, which will be on view through Aug. 12, 2006.
The exhibit combines photography and text to
pay tribute to and tell the story of a game, a team and a community. It
chronicles the 521 Allstars, a semi-professional baseball team
from Rembert, SC, that won its league championship while mourning
the untimely death of a beloved teammate, revealing the courage,
spirit and teamwork that these "boys of summer" embodied
on and off the field.
The photographs, taken over two years, are by Byron Baldwin, a
retired photography teacher and founding member of the Light Factory
Photographic Center in Charlotte, NC. The accompanying text
is by award-winning writer Frye Gaillard. The South Carolina
Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities
funded the exhibit, which is traveling nationally as part of the
Southern Visions: The Folk Arts & Southern Culture Traveling
Exhibits Program, a program of the Southern Arts Federation.
For more information check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 803/777-7251 or at (www.cas.sc.edu/mcks/).
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