The art of the game
From 2007 Red Sox rookies Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima to the ’08 opening series in Tokyo, Boston and Japan are inextricably linked by baseball. Now the Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 617.267.9300) is honoring that bond with a special installation, “Rockwell and the Shinjin: Celebrating Baseball and the Red Sox.” The exhibit, on view through July 20, is centered on Norman Rockwell’s classic painting, The Rookie (The Red Sox Locker Room), made famous on a 1957 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. (“Shinjin” means “rookie” in Japanese.) The exhibition also includes an original copy of that Post edition, bases from the 2004 and 2007 World Series, a pair of Dice-K’s cleats, and baseball-themed prints from Japan. General admission to the museum is $17.
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