Article: The optimist: baseball themes in Bert J. Griswold's Fort Wayne editorial cartoons.(ARTICLES)

In Bert J. Griswold's entire journalistic career he never admitted to being a baseball fan, but surely he was. As a daily cartoonist for two Fort Wayne, Indiana, newspapers, he routinely incorporated images of baseball into his work to help explain much broader and, in some respects, more important issues. His illustrations display a keen understanding of the game's role in early twentieth-century culture and show us, nearly a century later, that the game was an integral part of citizens' lives in a midsize industrial Midwestern city.

Born in 1873 in Osage, Iowa, Griswold started his career at his hometown newspaper. Following stints in Waterloo, Terre Haute, and ...

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