In the game from my last post, I was waiting for people I went with to use the restroom and I saw some cool art that in all my years going to Mariners games I’d never noticed before. Cool Baseball team logos made out of tin, license plates, bottle caps and other found objects. The work is called Baseball Quilts, by Ross Palmer Beecher

Seattle artist Ross Palmer Beecher created three large “quilts” made from pieces of found metal stitched together with red wire similar to the stitching on a baseball. Pieces of discarded pop cans and other metal containers create the logos of 30 Major League Baseball teams. The logos are “sewn” onto license plates of the states and Canadian provinces from which the teams hail, forming one quilt for the American League and one for the National League. The third quilt references the history of baseball in the Pacific Northwest from the Seattle Rainiers and Spokane Indians to the early days of the Mariners. – From the Seattle Mariners website

Here’s the Seattle Mariners: