Great Comic Book Covers Week, brought to you by 1979 Semi-Finalist concludes with…

Great Comic Covers Week continues…

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Great Comic Covers Week–jacked from 1979Semi-Finalist–continues.

Great Comic Book Covers Week…

Inspiration (and covers provided) by 1979 Semi-Finalist.

Great Comic Book Covers Week…

…lifted from the most excellent, 1979 Semi-Finalist.

Tan Tan

[Picture Credit: Tropical Toxic]

Hipster Spidey…

[Drawing by Allison Smith as found via This Isn’t Happiness]

I’ve got a piece in the Scorecard section of Sports Illustrated this week on “21,” the fantastic new graphic biography of Roberto Clemente.

Deadspin has a cool excerpt…

This one is a keeper and the ideal companion to David Maraniss’ definitive biography, “Clemente.”

A.J. Burnett and Brad Penny are former teammates. Today, they start against each other in the Bronx. Which dude has the best stuff? Watch and learn and remember, Todd Drew never gave up on ol’ A.J., so neither should we.

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Brian Costello on the Yankees’ shining star, Robinson Cano:

“He could very easily be as good as anyone in baseball,” said Larry Bowa, the former Yankees coach and now an MLB Network analyst. “The reason I say that is because the position he plays. I’m sure there’s going to be guys that hit more home runs and drive in more runs. I’m talking about the overall position this kid plays — in the middle of the diamond, involved in everything. He could be as good as anybody. He’s got unbelievable talent.”

[Drawing by Walt Simonson]

Check out this Vanity Fair piece on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

[Drawings by Larry Roibal]

C.C., A.J., Hughes, Nova, Fab Five Freddy. That’s the rotation. The intrepid Chad Jennings has more notes as the Yanks gear up for the regular season.

Mariano Rivera pitched in an exhibition game for the first time this spring–he threw 12 pitches and struck out the side.

The peaceful, easy feeling continues, even when the score doesn’t count. Chad Jennings has the skinny.

The Yanks lost to the Phillies today. Cliff has the recap.

[Drawing by Mary Byrom]

Five years of drawings from our guy Larry Roibal:

The Yanks and Sox, together again.

Exhibition baseball tonight on YES.

Drawings by Robert Weaver, spring training, 1962.

This morning, Jack Curry tweeted that he arrived at his 20th spring training and the first thing he heard was the thud of a ball hitting a mitt. Color me green with envy.

Jay Jaffe on that recently retired force of nature Gary Sheffield.

Today I bring you one Gus Godbold (photo unavailable).

Sounds pretty badass, but not much is known about Godbold – he played from 1948 to 1950 for minor league Philadelphia As teams in Moultrie (?), Tarboro (?!) and Fayetteville, batting .270 for his career.