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DAVID LA SPINA Checklist, Performance & Installation Photos Fantasy at Primetime, Brooklyn NY April 6-20th, 2014 DAVID LA SPINA Checklist, Performance & Installation Photos Fantasy Baseball

¡ Joe, 1952 ¡ Roy, 1952 2014 2014 Inkjet print on Sintra Inkjet print on Sintra 29.875 × 22.375" 29.875 × 22.375"

¡ Photographer Unknown/ ¡ Brave ¡ George Burke The Boston Globe ca. 1967 2014 Portrait of Elmer Riddle, Contact Print for 1942 Tony Conigliaro After Being by Silver gelatin print on museum Play Ball Set a Pitch in Sancta Maria Hospital board and Sintra ca. 1942 Silver gelatin print with typewriter 30 × 36" 7 × 5" Silver gelatin print in lucite top-loader 8 × 4.75" case DAVID LA SPINA Checklist, Performance & Installation Photos Fantasy Baseball

Take Me Out to the Ballgame , 2011 JEFF NELSON, 1977 April 12, 2014, 4 PM April 18, 2014, 4–8 PM April 12, 2014, 4–8 PM Arranged by PHILIP FACONTI DAVID LA SPINA Checklist, Performance & Installation Photos Fantasy Baseball

¡ Joey Votto Game Worn Glove 2014 Rawlings 12" Pro Preferred First-Basemans Mitt #PROTMKB in BallQube Acrylic Cereal Box Holder 13 × 9 × 4" ¡ Yahoo! Keeper League SOOFL Live Fantasy ¡ Photographer Unknown/ Draft at Ramona Bar, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Associated Press WIREPHOTO March, 19th Lonnie Frey and Collision at 2014 1st Base During March 17, 1948 Spring Training Channel HD Monitor Game in St. Petersburg, Florida Duration 2:38 1948 Silver gelatin print with grease and graphite pencil markings, Chicago Tribune clipping on verso 6 × 9.75"

¡ Fantasy 2014 Twelve Reds at Cubs 8–07–2010 game used Rawlings baseballs with Sharpie markings, authentication and Steiner Sports Marketing inventory holograms in five ¡ She’s Out Of Our (Auction) Fantasy League PVC Clear Ultra-PRO Baseball Cubes Championship Trophy for Yahoo! Keeper League Dimensions variable, cases 3 × 3 × 3" SOOFL 2011–2014 Wooden base and engraved plaques, manf. by Halex Awards & Gifts. ¡ Spuds (Rookie of the Year) 7.5 × 5.5 × 7.5" 1989-2014 291 Donruss 1989 Baseball Cards #317 (Christopher "Chris" Sabo) produced by Leaf, Inc. with red Sharpie in PVC top-loader rookie card cases 80 × 80" diamond DAVID LA SPINA Checklist, Performance & Installation Photos Fantasy Baseball

Works listed from left of gallery entrance, counter-clockwise:

¡ George Burke ¡ Fantasy Baseball Bat ¡ 1:2 Scale Fantasy Pitching Mound Portrait of Elmer Riddle, Contact Print for 1942 2012–4 2014 Play Ball Set Hillerich & Bradsby Louisville Slugger 33" Pro 750 .lbs Beam Clay Mound Clay Extra ca. 1942 Stock Wood Ash Model C271 Firm Red, six Beam Clay Mound & Batters Box 7 × 5" Silver gelatin print in lucite top-loader 2.625 × 33 × 2.625" Bricks and 2010 Wrigley Field visitor case used Schutt pitching rubber, with Major League ¡ Photographer Unknown/ Baseball authentication and Steiner Sports ¡ Yahoo! Keeper League SOOFL Live Fantasy Associated Press WIREPHOTO Marketing inventory holograms, constructed with Draft at Ramona Bar, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Lonnie Frey and Johnny Vander Meer Collision at J. Stortz & Son 6 × 6" Pro Tamper and Yankee 30" March, 19th 1st Base During March 17, 1948 Spring Training Aluminum Infield Rake with Sifting Teeth #0530 2014 Game in St. Petersburg, Florida 108 × 6 × 108", rubber 24 × 6 × 6" Single Channel HD Monitor 1948 Duration 2:38 Silver gelatin print with grease and graphite ¡ Cincinnati Spring Training Bat pencil markings, Chicago Tribune clipping on 1990–2014 ¡ Fantasy Baseball Infield verso Hillerich & Bradsby Louisville Slugger 31" 2014 6 × 9.75" Louisville Slugger Ash Model C271 with Sharpie Two 50 lbs. 4-ply bags of Resco Products, Inc. markings in BallQube PVC case Cedar Heights Redart Airfoloated Clay; 200 .lbs ¡ American Tobacco Company 37 × 4 × 4", bat 2.625 × 31 × 2.625" of additional red clay, 50/50 mix with 100 .lbs 1910 T206 Sweet Caporal Back White Border silica sand. Dode Paksert ¡ Photographer Unknown/ Dimensions variable, bags 35 × 18 × 10" ca. 1909–11 The Boston Globe Card in Ultra Pro 1" Lucite Screwdown ca. 1967 ¡ Spuds (Rookie of the Year) 5.75 × 3.5 × 1" Tony Conigliaro After Being Hit by a Pitch in 1989-2014 Sancta Maria Hospital in 1967 291 Donruss 1989 Baseball Cards #317 ¡ Joe, 1952 Silver gelatin print with typewriter impressions (Christopher "Chris" Sabo) produced by Leaf, 2014 8 × 4.75" Inc. with red Sharpie in PVC top-loader rookie Inkjet print on Sintra card cases 29.875 × 22.375" ¡ Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. 80 × 80" diamond 1964 Hitting Area, Dick Sisler and ¡ Fantasy Base and Foul Line #162 ¡ Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. 2014 ca. 1963–4 1953 Eddie Matthews #37 2.5" wide white Dura-Stripe line, Jack Corbett Card in Ultra Pro 1" Lucite Screwdown. ca. 1952-3 MLB Hollywood Base from Reds at Cubs 5-06- 5.75 × 3.5 × 1" Card in Ultra Pro 1" Lucite Screwdown. 2011 game at Wrigley Field with Major League 5.75 × 3.5 × 1" Baseball authentication and Steiner Sports ¡ Roy, 1952 Marketing inventory holograms 2014 ¡ Joey Votto Game Worn Cleats, Batting Helmet Line length variable, up to 330 feet, Inkjet print on Sintra and Glove base 15 x 3 x 15" 29.875 × 22.375" 2014 Two Nike Air Zoom Grit Metal Baseball Cleats, ¡ Photographer Unknown ¡ She’s Out Of Our (Auction) Fantasy League red/black, size 11.5 in two Grandstand football Pitching Sequence Championship Trophy for Yahoo! Keeper League PVC cases; Rawlings CoolFlo Pro Batting ca. 1973 SOOFL Helmet for Left Handed Batter, red, size 7 3/4 Silver gelatin print with grease pencil markings in 2011–2014 MLB Batting Helmet #CFMPBHSL with Decal PVC bag Wooden base and engraved plaques, Kit for Cincinnati Reds in BallQube Grandstand 9.25 × 8" manufactured by Halex Awards & Gifts. Basketball Cube; Rawlings 12" Pro Preferred 7.5 × 5.5 × 7.5" First-Basemans Mitt #PROTMKB in BallQube ¡ Fantasy Signatures Acrylic Cereal Box Holder 1987-2014 ¡ Fantasy Sports Photographer 15 × 12 × 7.5"; 10 × 10 × 10"; 13 × 9 × 4" Uncut press sheet #3 of 1987 Topps Baseball 2014 Cards with with blue Sharpie markings Ronald Modra 35mm slide of Reds ¡ Fleer, Inc. 42 × 29" upset a call a 1990 NLDS game vs Pirates 1986 Kurt Bevacqua #382; mounted on the Type A focusing screen in a 1986 Kurt Bevacqua #382 (Error) ¡ Brave Nikon F3 with MD-4 Motor, DA-2 Sports Finder, ca. 1986 2014 Nikkor 800mm f/8 lens, 1" Domke strap (navy) Two cards in Ultra Pro Screwdown Lucite Ticket Silver gelatin print on museum board and Sintra on a heavy-duty Gitzo tripod Holder 30 × 36" 36 × 60 × 20" 3.5 × 8.25 × .25" ¡ Opening Day Speech I/II ¡ Adam Eaton Debut Ball (5/30/00) 2014 Performances 2014 Uncut press sheet of 1981 Topps Baseball , 1999 Princeton Devil Rays Rawlings baseball with pen markings, in a PVC Cards with gold ink silkscreen of March 2014 April 6, 2014, 12–8 PM Clear Ultra-PRO Baseball Cube Joey Votto article set in font based on Pete 3 × 3 × 3" Rose Confession Balls; version II halftone of Take Me Out to the Ballgame slide for Topps 1963, 1964 and 1968 April 12, 2014, 4 PM ¡ Fantasy Baseballs (Bazooka) cards in PMS 199 both produced by J. Arranged by PHILIP FACONTI 2014 Pereira/Clawhammer Twelve Reds at Cubs 8–07–2010 game used 42 × 29"; 44 × 30" BOB TUFTS, 1983 Rawlings baseballs with Sharpie markings, Major April 12, 2014, 4:10 PM League Baseball authentication and Steiner Sports Marketing inventory holograms in five JEFF NELSON, 1977 Billings Mustangs PVC Clear Ultra-PRO Baseball Cubes April 12, 2014, 4–8 PM Dimensions variable, cases 3 × 3 × 3" JOEY VOTTO, 2011 Cincinnati Reds April 18, 2014, 4–8 PM DAVID LA SPINA Open April 6–20, 2014 Fantasy Baseball by appointment

F-I-R-S-T S-E-C-O-N-D T-H-I-R-D Batting Opening Day Parade Slides and Practice First Pitch at 4 PM Pickoffs

Sunday, April 6th Saturday, April 12th Friday, April 18th 12–8 PM 4–8 PM 4–8 PM

Take batting practice with Opening Day marching band & Practice your slides and pickoffs JOSH HAMILTON of the Princeton live pitching to Billings Mustangs’ with the Cincinnati Reds’ MVP first- Devil Rays in 1999 prospect, JEFFREY NELSON in 1977 baseman, JOEY VOTTO in 2011

Sitting on the bench, and waiting... that’s what comes to mind on Opening HAMILTON: towering 6'4" frame, Day. There is nothing like it. The stadium surrounds you and all you can see 200 lbs; 2-way, 5-tool prep from and hear is how you feel: sweaty, panicked, nauseous and light-headed. Raleigh, NC. With size 19 feet, 94 Personally, I try to stay centered and focused, usually to no avail. I focus MPH FB, + arm in OF, great poise in on keeping both cleats on the ground. It helps remind me that I am here in this the & good bat speed, went moment, in this dugout, and I am here for a reason. 7-1, 2.50 ERA, 13 HR in 25 games. All you hear are the names and cheers. Finally, they call your name, and High 1st round, 1999. you exit the dugout and see red. The red in the stands envelops you. The color is perfect for that moment because of the color’s natural passion. NELSON: 1976 undrafted FA, lanky Giving high fives to the team and shaking hands along the line is 6'1" 210 lbs Rk at Billings, 6 H, 16 something else that is synonymous with Opening Day to me. Making contact BB, 14 SO in 63 PA in 19 GMS at 1B. and touching everyone represents the unity we have while we play together. Lacks plate discipline, 5 E in 88 PO. We play for the uniform and city we represent, but first and foremost we play No speed. Wears #14 but no Rose for each other. Being accountable to your teammate trumps every selfish here. Release. inclination we all have as players. The anthem plays, the first pitch is thrown out, and we get ready for the VOTTO: Etobicoke Club, . game. But this is not any game, this is the first game of the year. Much of Ken, Johnny & Bob looked before the energy that surrounds Opening Day for us ballplayers centers on the visit to Columbus/Yanks, slot 900K, unknown. The unknown of this game or even this season begins with Opening aiming 600K. Quiet, good-looking, Day. We as ballplayers fall into the wonderful world of action. No longer do used maple since HS, strong LH we sit and wait, hope, and fear. We have action as our ally against the demons swing, runs avg., plate discipline, + we fight inside, and Opening Day is the day where we get to finally be what we power, avg. arm at C, RF and 3B. 2nd prepared for. round, 2002. However, there is one day that is remembered and special throughout the regular season and that is Opening Day in Cincinnati. We as a group look Band forward to Opening Day because of the experience, but more so for what it Arrangement: PHILIP FACONTI represents: that Cincinnati Reds baseball is back. Trumpet: DANIEL FILSTRUP —JOEY VOTTO, Goodyear, AZ, 2014 Alto Sax: KEVIN JACOBI Trombone: KARUBA NIGEL HILLIARD Performers: SHLOMO LIPETZ, RHP, Israeli National Team, Haverford College, Downtown Bulls OSMER COLLADO, Util./RHP, George Washington High School Trojans, Roswell Invaders JOSHUA CALCANO, P, George 135 Huntington St., Brooklyn Washington High School Trojans, p-r-i-m-e-t-i-m-e.com New York Gothams