Sports Illustrated: "The Hairiest Team of All"

  • Robert Weaver Collection
  • Dowd Illustration Research Archive
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Title
Sports Illustrated: "The Hairiest Team of All"
Creator
  • Weaver, Robert (American illustrator, 1924-1994) [LCNAF]
Collecting Area
  • Dowd Illustration Research Archive
Collection Name
  • Robert Weaver Collection
Description
Double page spread with black and white illustrations by Weaver from an April 13, 1970 issue of Sports Illustrated with an article entitled "The Hairiest Team of All." Top black and white illustration depicts a building called the Diamond House in Benton Harbor, Michigan, belonging to the religious sect known as House of David with an illustration of a person, likely the founder of the sect, tilted horizontally across the front of the illustration. Bottom black and white photographs are of the House of David baseball team, all lined up and wearing beards.