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In the late 1940s, Will Eisner tried to launch some other comic books. 1 / 11

One of them, Baseball Comics, was Eisner's attempt at specializing in one sport like magazines did. 2 / 11

The comic book starred Rube Rookey, Eisner's answer to the boxing comic, Joe Palooka. 3 / 11

Since Eisner was such a master, the comic book turned out really well. 4 / 11

However, the market just wasn't there for a comic book about baseball. 5 / 11

Eisner had back-ups written by Jules Feiffer for the first TWO issues. 6 / 11

Meanwhile, Eisner's main gig was his weekly Spirit comic book. 7 / 11

Since Baseball Comics was canceled after one issue, Eisner had a leftover baseball comic story. 8 / 11

So Eisner created a a framing sequence and then did that baseball story in the Spirit! 9 / 11

So instead of a regular Spirit comic, it was a story about a 1907 pennant race. 10 / 11

Eisner had Commissioner Dolan talk about "the good old days." 11 / 11