254. "The Machine" 7" x 10.5"

Size: 7 × 10.5 inches art print (not a comic book) Availability: Pre-order ends Sunday, August 23rd at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET Shipping: Expected to ship approximately 40–60 days after the purchase window closes. Estimated timeframe. Not guaranteed. From the Artist: Pop Fly #254: The Machine Albert Pujols showed up at the turn of the millenium and immediately started breaking things. He hit .329 with 37 home runs as a ROOKIE. 22 seasons later, he walked away with over 700 home runs, 3 MVPs , 11 All-Star selections and a .296 career average. At some point in his career, “Albert” just stopped being an adequate explanation. They called him The Machine. So I took it literally here. Pop Fly #254 imagines Pujols as the kind of baseball-playing mechanical marvel deserving of the nickname that might have appeared on the cover of a wildly overexcited 1960s comic book that might've been on the stands when Stan Musial played. Steel hands, gears, wires. pistons...and a wooden bat. And, somewhere inside all that machinery, Albert calmly waiting for the pitcher to make his next mistake. As Pujols once put it: “I know what I am capable of doing.” That sounds considerably more threatening when you’re made of metal and called The Machine. POP FLY #254: THE MACHINE 7" × 10.5" archival print Limited edition. Artist-signed, numbered.