We’re excited to announce the latest gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Town of Vail’s public art collection. You’ll find Yoram Wolberger’s polished stainless steel sculpture at the main entrance to the Ford Park sports fields.
Male Baseball #1 depicts a dramatic enlargement of the baseball player figurine found on Little League trophies. Created with digital technologies, the sculpture examines notions of athleticism, community, commemoration and belonging, enlarged beyond any possibility of dismissal the stereotypical hero in the global sport of baseball.
A related work to this one by Yoram is in San Diego’s new Central Library, to be exact–contains a unique and important repository of American history. The Sullivan Family Baseball Research Center, located on the eighth floor of the downtown library, is home to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Collection. It constitutes the largest baseball library west of Cooperstown! Shelves of books, magazines, journals, scrapbooks and other historical documents, and many photographs, have recorded in detail the fascinating history of American baseball. And it’s all open to the public!
The research center is directly adjacent to the spacious, high-domed reading room. In the center of the collection is a shiny sculpture of a player swinging a bat, titled Male baseball #1, created in 2009 by artist Yoram Wolberger. On one wall among many old photos, a video screen shows scenes from baseball history. This is one super cool section of the library!
According to the website of the Society for American Baseball Research: “The Baseball Research Center opened in 2001, with an initial collection of books and microfilm donated by SABR’s Ted Williams Chapter. In the years since, it has grown to more than 3,000 publications, books, and journals, and 300 microfilm reels.”
Wolberger’s (b. 1963, Tel Aviv, Israel) works have been acquired for the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Orange County Museum of Art (CA), Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California Riverside (CA) and the McNay Art Museum (TX). The artist lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
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