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Leo O'Melia George Trautman

Owner: Dwayne Dush
Artist: Leo O'Mealia (All)

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Title:	Leo O'Melia George Trautman
Artist:	Leo O'Mealia (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
Views:	182
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Added to Site:	6/8/2023

Description

Baseball cartoon created by Leo O'Mealia (1884–1960).

This piece is a commentary on how television was making it tough to attract fans to minor league baseball games. It features George Trautman, who was President of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, 1947 until his death in 1963. One of the few pieces of artwork that I have framed.

Leo was a sports cartoonist for the Rochester Herald, the Rochester Times, The Globe and the New York Daily News. Leo's work is featured in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. In most of his drawings he added a little friendly frisky lion which became his trademark.

He was the creator of a popular syndicated comic strip called Wedlock. Between 1930 and 1931, he did 816 illustrations for 9 Sherlock Holmes short stories (from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes) written by Arthur Conan Doyle. In some of these illustrations he signed as "Leo".

Leo created the cover art for Action Comics (issues 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Adventure Comics (41) and and for Detective Comics (issues 20 and 21). And weirdly, he is credited for cover art on Superman #1. But here's what's weird (taken from DCFandom.com site): "The cover for this issue comes from the first panel of Action Comics #10. The panel was photostatted and cut out by Leo O'Mealia, who then drew the ornate frame around it."

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