256. "The Black Aces " 7" x 10.5"

Size: 7 × 10.5 inches art print (not a comic book) Availability: Pre-order ends Sunday, September 6th 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: There are baseball clubs you join because somebody votes you in and then there are clubs you join because you did something extraordinary enough to simply belong. The Black Aces are Black pitchers who have won 20 games in a Major League season. Don Newcombe became the first in 1951. Jim “Mudcat” Grant joined him in 1965, becoming the first Black pitcher to win 20 games in the American League. Years later, Grant gave this remarkable fraternity its name and made it a mission to recognize the pitchers who had reached it — and encourage more to follow. There were 13 Black Aces when Grant published his book The Black Aces in 2007. There are only 15 today. The most recent is David Price, who won 20 games in 2012. Which means the club isn’t finished, but rather it’s waiting. That became the idea behind Pop Fly #255. A normal deck gets four Aces. But in this club, there can always be another card. There can always be another pitcher who gets there. There is no last Ace. Every copy of THE BLACK ACES includes one Black Ace playing card ...spade, heart, diamond or club ... made especially for this release. Among them are just 20 individually gold-foil versions, five of each suit, randomly inserted into orders. Twenty cards. One for every win it takes to become a Black Ace.