Ed Attanasio - Bushers

Containing 50 fictional legendary baseball players and their amusing biographies, Bushers: Ballplayers Drawn From Left Field ($17.99) takes a whimsical look at baseball during the Deadball Era, when free agency, luxury boxes and enormous salaries were non-existent. It's a wild and hilarious collection of baseball's greatest goof balls, wannabes, could've-beens and never was hailing from every state in the Union--representing actual towns like Nuttsville, Virginia, Parole, Maryland and Sweet Lips, Tennessee. This book tells a tale of fame squandered by unusual habits such as wrong-way baserunning, smelly feet, narcolepsy and uncontrollable sweat. With illustrations by Ed Attanasio and text written by Attanasio and Eric Gouldsberry, this graphic novel takes a funny look at baseball's early years through the eyes of two passionate lifelong fans of this great game.

Ed Attanasio started sketching as a form of rehab after he had a mini-stroke on August 4, 2009. The stroke didn’t affect his body, but it addled his brain to the point where he was unable to continue his job as a journalist/ad copywriter. So, he started drawing a series of illustrations on Post-It-Notes in order to exercise his brain, while he embarked on a slow 14-month recovery. This work is a compilation of those illustrations. 

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Bushers: Ballplayers Drawn from Left Field By Ed Attanasio, Eric Gouldsberry Cover Image
ISBN: 9780786479009
Published: McFarland & Company - October 16th, 2013