Mobius by Don Hamerman

Craving-peanuts-and-Cracker-Jacks greetings, collectors! Baseball's regular season's coming to a close in late September (much to some people's chagrin), so introducing today's edition—Mobius, by Don Hamerman—is our unofficial kick off to the last remaining days of the season, not to mention summer. It's been three years (and many, many baseball puns) since we first introduced editions from Don's enormously popular series, Found Baseballs, and the attention he's received since has been a crowd-pleasing thrill to follow here at 20x200 HQ. Equally engaging and of note is Don's series of matchbox cars, which was featured in the iPad app version of Automobile magazine.

Mobius is Don's 12th edition with us, and his 10th from the series of gnarled, mangled and weathered baseballs he's found and precisely photographed. We've penned many an introduction of his fast-selling editions, but this tidbit I wrote last year about Don's work best sums up why we love it:

The thing about this series is that it's made all of us at Team 20x200 reconsider the way we look at the things around us on a daily basis... Don was OUR gateway drug into art that references sports—most of us 'round these parts aren't inclined to walk the walk OR talk the talk of athletes. But we enjoy offering editions like Don's because they present a good point of entry for all of you who might not normally think that art's your thing (I know you're out there!), or that art and sport could so peacefully co-exist—making the discovery of these photographs an enlightening experience for all.

— Jen