“Derek Jeter presents a conundrum for a Red Sox fan like me,” Mark Ulriksen says about this week’s cover. “I loathe the Yankees, but I appreciate and respect Jeter. No baseball fan can ever forget ‘the flip’ against the Oakland A’s in the playoffs. He’s a classic—humble, consistently spectacular, both at bat and in the field. When he arrived twenty years ago, he helped to make the Yankees the best team in baseball (again!) for too many seasons. Commemorating his career with a farewell cover is something that I’m sure even the Red Sox Nation can forgive me for.”
Here’s a slide show of Ulriksen’s baseball art on the cover of The New Yorker and elsewhere.
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“Play Ball!” by Mark Ulriksen, May 1, 1995.
