Getting your player ready...
Modern baseball art? This guy’s a real Pincasso. An Orioles fan spent nearly $400 and 30 hours creating a mosaic of Cal Ripken Jr. — out of 10,115 thumbtacks — and posted a time-lapse video of his work on YouTube. “The only way that could be cooler is if he had used 2,632 thumbtacks,” noted Richie Rich at , “but it probably wouldn’t have looked as good.” Chimed in Brooks Melchior of : “My Lite-Brite Rob Deer suddenly seems so much less impressive.” The Seattle Times
