Another clever piece by Mr. Leo O'Mealia. An illustration of the pitcher having a ball come screaming back to him and accidentally "catching" it. Such a great sense of design and story telling in just a few panels.
ABOUT LEO
Leo O'Mealia (1884–1960) was known for creating baseball cartoons depicting a generic team making a type of play through a series of sequential images. Often making fun of typical mistakes or accidents resulting in a positive result.
Leo would always place a cute lion somewhere on the page. ABOUT LEO 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."
