Thank you. You are purchasing an 11 x 17 museum quality lithograph on 100% radiant white acid free stock with oil base archival inks. The artist, Robert Stephen Simon, was a nationally acclaimed sports artist who through many years of hard work and total dedication to his craft had risen to the highest echelons of graphic and commercial art in America and throughout the World.  

Donald Arthur Mattingly is an American former professional baseball first baseman, coach and current manager of the Miami Marlins. Nicknamed "The Hit Man" and "Donnie Baseball", he spent his entire 14-year career playing with the New York Yankees and later managed the Los Angeles Dodgers for five years.

About Robert Stephen Simon: The artist was the nationally acclaimed portrait artist, Robert Stephen Simon, who through many years of hard work and total dedication to his craft had risen to the highest echelons of graphic and commercial art in America and throughout the world before his untimely death. Mr. Simon possessed a rare quality of unparalleled ability to capture the majesty of a moment as well as the character and emotionalism of a subject. Mr. Simon prided 33 years as one of America's most respected and honored pioneers of Portrait Art and had been selected, by the Biographical Society of Cambridge, England, as one of the "1000 distinguished Americans" for the year 2001. Mr. Simon was a member of Who's Who in the World, the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., the Classical Society of Realism, and the distinguished Society of Illustrators, N.Y.C.
 Robert Stephen Simon Passed May 29, 2014. He will be missed.

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