ORIGINAL AMADEE DRAWING VERN LAW SPORTING NEWS AUTHENTIC BASEBALL !!!

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Amadee Original Drawing Of Vern Law "The Sporting News" Original measures
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Amadee Wohlschlaeger was an American cartoonist, who drew the 'Weatherbird' newspaper feature for nearly 50 years, between 1932 and 1981. He also created a comic strip, 'Herkimer' (1946-1952).
Amadee Wohlschlaeger was born in 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri, as the son of a printer. He never went to high school, but his passion for drawing did encourage him to take art classes at Washington University. In 1925, at the age of 14, Wohlschlaeger worked as a copy boy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a newspaper where his father was employed. By 1929 he became an illustrator for this paper.
In 1932 Wohlschlaeger succeeded S. Carlisle Martin as the regular cartoonist of the 'Weatherbird' cartoon. The 'Weatherbird' cartoon was a small cartoon of a bird which lightened up the daily weather report in the paper. The character originally made its debut in 1901 under the pen of Harry B. Martin. Martin had passed the feature on to Oscar Chopin in 1903, who drew it until 1910 after which he passed it on to S. Carlisle Martin. Wohlschlaeger was the fourth cartoonist to continue 'Weatherbird' and also continued it for the longest time: 49 years! His successor in 1981 was Albert Schweitzer (not to be confused with the famous physician of the same name) who passed the pencil to Dan Martin in 1986. As of 2017 Martin still draws 'Weatherbird' for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, making it the oldest and longest running magazine mascot still used by its original publication. The topical "bird lines", which commented on the news of the day, were written by editor Carlos F. Hurd until 1950. From then on, the writing was handled on a competitive basis in the Post-Dispatch newsroom.
In 1936 Wohlschlaeger also started making contributions to the sports section of the paper. He made various sports cartoons and became the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's political cartoonist as well in 1939. Sports remained a passion, as he illustrated various covers for The Sporting News, as well as the football programs of the University of Missouri and the annual Baseball Writers dinners in St. Louis. In 1992, as a tribute, he was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. From 10 April 1946 to 11 October 1953 he also had a Sunday comic in the paper called 'Herkimer'.
Amadee Wohlschlaeger retired in 1981. The artist celebrated his 100th birthday at the Mari de Villa Retirement Community in Town & Country in 2011. He passed away on 24 June 2014, at the age of 102.
It takes Dan Martin under two minutes to draw a man who used to draw a well-known bird for a living.
His name was Amadee.
'Wolschlaeger,' says St. Louis Post Dispatch illustrator Dan Martin. 'The old story he readily told is he misspelled his last name on one of the cartoons he did so he just started signing his first name Amadee, A-m-a-d-e-e. '
Amadee was the man behind the Weatherbird from 1932 until 1981.
He grew up in the Carondelet area but yesterday passed away at 102 years of age.
'If you were to make a deal with the devil and say I'll die in your sleep at 102 I think most people will take that,' says Martin.
Amadee's art proved the felt tip pin is mightier than a sword.
He could capture an event or person with his signature style not seen by many in today's modern society.
'He was using a technique largely forgotten today,' says Martin. 'It was Ebony graphite and pencil on something called social board.'
He was known for his larger than life personality and the ability to put a moment of time on paper.
Amadee was synonymous with his sports cartoons and wild sport coats.
In recent years he was a regular at Charlie Gitto`s where you can see some of his handiwork hanging on the walls.
'Amadee actually learned a lot of this stuff from cartoonists in the 1890's,' says Martin. ' So you can make a direct line back from Amadee to 19th century newspapering almost.
That's a line that tells a lot of this city's history in black and white.
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Amadee Wohlschlaeger
BIRTH
3 Dec 1911
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
DEATH
24 Jun 2014 (aged 102)
Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
BURIAL
Resurrection Cemetery
Affton, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
PLOT
Sec 40, Lot 153
MEMORIAL ID
131935257 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 4
FLOWERS 16
American Cartoonist, Sports Historian, Artist, Illustrator. Amadee Wohlschlaeger was an illustrator for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1932 until 1981, drawing the Weather Bird. He was also a cartoonist for The Sporting News. For more than 70 years he illustrated the history of sports in St Louis. In addition to the Weather Bird, he drew cartoons for the sports pages. In his lifetime, he drew many of the great American baseball players. His career spanned and drawings depicted the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Many have been exhibited in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He grew up in the Carondelet section of South St Louis, one of eight children in a German Catholic family. His father was a typesetter and newspaper printer for the Post Dispatch. Amadee joined the paper at age 14 as a copy boy. At 17, he moved to the art department. Although he never went to high school, a parish priest helped get him in to art classes at Washington University. In 1932 when the current weather bird illustrator died, he spent hours learning to draw it and got the job. After retirement, he continued to draw in his own studio and freelanced his work. In 1992 he was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
Sporting News is a digital sports media owned by Perform Group, a global sports content and media company.
Sporting News, originally The Sporting News, was established in 1886 as a weekly U.S. magazine. It became the dominant American publication covering baseball, acquiring the nickname "The Bible of Baseball."[1] It is now a digital-only publication providing essential coverage of all major sports, and with editions in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Japan.
Contents
1
History
1.1
J. G. Taylor Spink Award
2
Athlete of the Year
2.1
Sportsman of the Year
2.2
Pro Athlete of the Year
2.3
College Athlete of the Year
2.4
Athlete of the Year
3
Sport-specific awards
3.1
Major League Baseball
3.2
Basketball
3.3
NFL
3.4
College football awards
4
See also
5
Footnotes
6
External links
History
March 17, 1886: The Sporting News (TSN), founded in St. Louis [2] by Alfred H. Spink, a director of the St. Louis Browns baseball team, publishes its first edition. The weekly newspaper sells for 5 cents. Baseball, horse racing and professional wrestling received the most coverage in the first issue. Meanwhile, the sporting weeklies Clipper and Sporting Life were based in New York and Philadelphia. By World War I, TSN would be the only national baseball newspaper.
1901: The American League, another rival to baseball's National League, begins play. TSN was a vocal supporter of the new league and its founder, Ban Johnson. Both parties advocated cleaning up the sport, in particular ridding it of liquor sales, gambling and assaults on umpires.
1903: TSN editor Arthur Flanner helps draft the National Agreement, a document that brought a truce between the AL and NL and helped bring about the modern World Series.
1904: New York photographer Charles Conlon begins taking portraits of major league players as they passed through the city's three ballparks: the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field. His images, many of which were featured in TSN have become treasured symbols of baseball's past.
1936: TSN names its first major league Sporting News Player of the Year Award, Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants. It is the oldest and most prestigious award given to the single player in MLB who had the most outstanding season. To this day, it remains voted on by MLB players.
1942: After decades of being intertwined with baseball, in-season football coverage is added.
1946: TSN expands its football coverage with an eight-page tabloid publication titled The Quarterback. The tab is later renamed the All-Sports News as coverage of other sports is added, including professional and college basketball and hockey.
1962: J.G. Taylor Spink dies. His son C.C. Johnson Spink takes over the publication.
1967: TSN publishes its first full-color photo, a cover image of Orioles star Frank Robinson.
1977: The Spink family sells TSN to Times Mirror in 1977.[3]
1981: C.C. Johnson Spink sells TSN to Tribune Co. That year, the Baseball Hall of Fame inaugurates the annual J.G. Taylor Spink Award, given to a media member who has covered the sport with distinction.
1991: The Sporting News transitions to a glossy, full-color all-sports magazine.
1996: The Sporting News comes online, serving as a sports content provider for AOL. The following year, it launches sportingnews.com.
2000: Tribune Co. sells TSN to Vulcan Inc., headed by tech billionaire Paul Allen. The following year, the company acquired the One on One Sports radio network, renaming it Sporting News Radio.
2002: The Sporting News drops the The and becomes just Sporting News. Subsequent magazine covers reflect the change.
2006: Vulcan sells SN to Advance Media, which places the publication under the supervision of American City Business Journals.
2007: Sporting News begins its move from St. Louis, where it had been based since its founding, to ACBJ's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. The publication leaves St. Louis for good in 2008, when it also became a bi-weekly publication.
2012: After 126 years of printing ink on paper with weekly, biweekly or monthly frequency, SN publishes its final print edition and moves to digitally only publishing.[4]
2013: ACBJ enters into a joint venture with Perform Group. Perform, which also owns Goal.com, Opta Sports and other international sports data properties, buys a 65 percent stake in the company.
2015: Perform buys ACBJ's 35 percent stake and assumes 100 percent ownership of SN.
2015-17: SN expands into international markets, establishing editions in Australia, Canada and Japan.
J. G. Taylor Spink Award
In 1962, after J. G. Taylor Spink's death, Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) instituted the J. G. Taylor Spink Award as the highest award given to its members. Spink was also the first recipient.
Athlete of the Year
Sportsman of the Year
A different Sportsman of the Year award is presented by Sports Illustrated magazine
From 1968 to 2008, the magazine selected one or more individuals as Sportsman of the Year. On four occasions, the award was shared by two recipients. Twice, in 1993 and 2000, the award went to a pair of sportsmen within the same organization. In 1999, the honor was given to a whole team. No winner was chosen in 1987.
On December 18, 2007, the magazine announced New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady as 2007 Sportsman of the Year, making Brady the first to repeat as a recipient of individual honors. Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals was also honored twice, but shared his second award with Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs.
In 2009, the award was replaced by two awards: "Pro Athlete of the Year" and "College Athlete of the Year". These in turn were replaced by a singular "Athlete of the Year" award starting in 2011.
1968 – Denny McLain, Detroit Tigers
1969 – Tom Seaver, New York Mets
1970 – John Wooden, UCLA basketball
1971 – Lee Trevino, golf
1972 – Charlie Finley, Oakland A's
1973 – O. J. Simpson, Buffalo Bills
1974 – Lou Brock, St. Louis Cardinals
1975 – Archie Griffin, Ohio State football
1976 – Larry O'Brien, National Basketball Association commissioner
1977 – Steve Cauthen, horse racing
1978 – Ron Guidry, New York Yankees
1979 – Willie Stargell, Pittsburgh Pirates
1980 – George Brett, Kansas City Royals
1981 – Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oilers
1982 – Whitey Herzog, St Cardinals
1983 – Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball commissioner
1984 – Peter Ueberroth, Olympics organizer
1985 – Pete Rose, Cincinnati Reds
1986 – Larry Bird, Boston Celtics
1987 – (none)
1988 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympics
1989 – Joe Montana, San Francisco 49ers
1990 – Nolan Ryan, Texas Rangers
1991 – Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
1992 – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke basketball
1993 – Cito Gaston and Pat Gillick, Toronto Blue Jays
1994 – Emmitt Smith, Dallas Cowboys
1995 – Cal Ripken, Baltimore Orioles
1996 – Joe Torre, New York Yankees
1997 – Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals
1998 – Mark McGwire, St. Louis Cardinals, and Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs (see also 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase)
1999 – New York Yankees
2000 – Marshall Faulk and Kurt Warner, St. Louis Rams
2001 – Curt Schilling, Arizona Diamondbacks
2002 – Tyrone Willingham, Notre Dame football
2003 – Dick Vermeil, Kansas City Chiefs, and Jack McKeon, Florida Marlins
2004 – Tom Brady, New England Patriots
2005 – Matt Leinart, USC football
2006 – LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego Chargers
2007 – Tom Brady, New England Patriots
2008 – Eli Manning, New York Giants
Pro Athlete of the Year
2009 – Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees[5]
2010 – Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies[6]
College Athlete of the Year
2009 – Colt McCoy, Texas football[7]
2010 – Kyle Singler, Duke men's basketball[8]
Athlete of the Year
Beginning in 2011, the awards were merged back into a singular selection, Athlete of the Year.
2011 – Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers
2012 – LeBron James, Miami Heat
Sport-specific awards
Major League Baseball
See also: Baseball awards
SN sponsors its own annual Team, Player, Pitcher, Rookie, Reliever, Comeback Player, Manager, and Executive of the Year awards. Many fans once held the newspaper's baseball awards at equal or higher esteem than those of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.[9] Prior to 2005, the SN Comeback Player Award was generally recognized as the principal award of its type, as MLB did not give such an award until that year.
The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award (discontinued in 1946)
Sporting News Player of the Year (all positions; in MLB)
Sporting News Pitcher of the Year (in each league)
Sporting News Rookie of the Year (from 1963 through 2003, there were two categories: Rookie Pitcher of the Year and Rookie Player of the Year)
Sporting News Reliever of the Year (discontinued in 2011)
Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year
Sporting News Manager of the Year (in each league (1986–present); in MLB (1936–1985))
Sporting News Executive of the Year (in MLB)
Basketball
Sporting News NBA Executive of the Year Award (1973–2008)
Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year
NFL
Sporting News NFL Player of the Year Award (1954–1969 and since 1980)
Sporting News AFC and NFC player of the year awards (1970–1979)
Sporting News NFL Rookie of the Year Award[10]
Sporting News NFL Coach of the Year (since 1947)
Sporting News All-Pro Team (since 1980)[11]
Sporting News All-Conference Team (from 1950s till 1979) (defunct)[11]
College football awards
Sporting News College Football Player of the Year (1942)
Sporting News All-America Team (1934)
Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year
See also
Thomas G. Osenton, president and chief operating officer of Sporting News Publishing Company and publisher of The Sporting News weekly
Amadee Wohlschlaeger (3 December 1911 – 24 June 2014) was a 20th-century American sports cartoonist in St. Louis. He was known professionally as just "Amadee" as he signed his cartoons that way. He was long-time sports cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in an era when newspaper sports pages usually featured a prominent cartoon as an essential element of their layout.[1] He drew the Weatherbird cartoon for over 49 years.[2]
Life and career
Wohlschlaeger was born on December 3, 1911 in St. Louis and grew up in the Carondelet neighborhood in the far south of that city,[1] where he developed a passion for drawing when a small child.[3] He did not attend high school (although he did later take art classes at Washington University), starting at age 14 at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where his father was a printer, as a copy boy earning .50 (about 7.15[4] in 2018 dollars) a week. In 1929 at age 17 he was hired into the paper's art department.[1]
In 1932, Wohlschlaeger took over as the artist for the Post-Dispatch's Weatherbird, which was created in 1901 and remains in continuous daily use. He was the fourth artist to draw the Weatherbird. Wohlschlaeger drew the Weatherbird, usually accompanied by a pithy observation on current events, for almost fifty years, from 1932 to 1981. His Weatherbird marked D-Day, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and many other notable events.[1]
Wohlschlaeger drew his first sports cartoon for the paper in 1936.[1] Among his contributions was his "Cardinals Camp Capers" cartoon, sent in from spring training.
In 1939 he filled in as the Post-Dispatch's editorial cartoonist, drawing caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini as well as local politicians.[1]
Wohlschlaeger drew many covers for the Sporting News, which was then produced in St. Louis and known as "The Baseball Bible".[1][5] He also drew covers for University of Missouri football programs for over thirty years,[6] and covers for the annual St. Louis Baseball Writers dinner.[5]
He was using a technique largely forgotten today. It was Ebony graphite and pencil on something called social board... Amadee actually learned a lot of this stuff from cartoonists in the 1890s. So you can make a direct line back from Amadee to 19th century newspapering almost.
— Dan Martin, Post Dispatch cartoonist dies at 102[7]
Wohlschlaeger retired in 1981.[8] He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.[6]
Wohlschlaeger was married to Violet Wohlschlaeger; they had a son, Amadee Wohlschlaeger Jr.[9] Wohlschlaeger died June 24, 2014 in St. Louis County.[1]
Please check the photos Amadee Wohlschlaeger was an American cartoonist, who drew the 'Weatherbird' newspaper feature for nearly 50 years, between 1932 and 1981. He also created a comic strip, 'Herkimer' (1946-1952). Amadee Wohlschlaeger was born in 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri, as the son of a printer. He never went to high school, but his passion for drawing did encourage him to take art classes at Washington University. In 1925, at the age of 14, Wohlschlaeger worked as a copy boy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a newspaper where his father was employed. By 1929 he became an illustrator for this paper.