Softball Classic events have been held every Memorial Day, 4th-of-July and Labor Day for the past ten years at Pumping Station Park in Riverwest. Each event features a series of three games over an afternoon, complete with a PA announcer, DJ, and, of course, brats and beer. The Classics are sponsored by Promises bar in Walker’s Point.
As a newcomer to Milwaukee, and someone uniquely interested in the intersection of baseball and art (see Baseball Cycling), I decided this Memorial Day 2024 to participate by tracking the games’ occurrences using the traditional baseball scorekeeping format and code language. Later, I referred to my scorecards to write a sports-article-style summary of the three-game series. Then, inspired by a friend’s photos of friends in the bleachers, I designed a zine pairing their photos with my written summary.
Thusly, a new project series was born.
See below the Memorial Day and 4th-of-July Classic series summary zines. The Labor Day Classic Series Summary will be released sometime before Memorial Day 2025.
