The New Yorker - Shotime

It’s always fun to see a Dodgers-related cover on a magazine. Sure, on a sports magazine it might be expected, but on the New Yorker, a magazine full of commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry, that’s something else.

The artist
Mark Ulriksen has been a cover artist for the New Yorker for over 30 years. Of his 70 covers 12 are about baseball (most of them Yankees related, which is curious because he’s a Giants and Red Sox fan, but understandable because… The New Yorker). His latest featuring our own Shohei Ohtani.

Ohtani
The cover features Ohtani seen from the back, just after a hit (probably hitting one out of the park) and in his back pocket a wad of money. Now, this piece of art was done when the ‘Ohtani financial scandal’ was still the talk of the town.
those hoping for a piece accompanying the art... you'll be disappointed. the cover itself is reason enough to get a copy, though.