Displayed is circa 1957 original artwork - an amazing Williard Mullin cartoon that serves as a powerful, poignant foreshadowing of the forthcoming heartbreak of Brooklyn Dodgers faithful when, after the '57 season, owner Walter O'Malley uprooted a baseball institution and replanted the Brooklyn "Bums" in Los Angeles. Mullin was a long-term sports cartoonist for the New York World-Telegram and Sun newspaper, part of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. His cartoons often appeared in the 19 other Scripps-Howard newspapers and in the Sporting News. Mullin was such an accomplished artist that he won the prestigious National Cartoonists Society Sports Cartoon Award every year from 1957-62, and again in '64 and '65. Using famed circus clown Emmett Kelly's creation of his Weeping Willie character as a figurative model, Mullin created his famed "Brooklyn Bum." The cartoon has fantastic content regarding, at that time, the likely impending Dodger move to Los Angeles. While the Brooklyn Dodgers were financially successful in the early 1950s, O'Malley wanted to make even more money. Parking was limited near Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and many of the team's fans now lived in New York City suburbs and preferred to drive to games, so attendance was down. O'Malley was looking to Los Angeles years before he actually flew the coop. O'Malley was pressuring New York City officials for a new stadium to be built in downtown Brooklyn, but he was rebuffed. In the Dodgers' last two seasons in Brooklyn, O'Malley scheduled seven official regular season games in nearby Jersey City, New Jersey - one against each of the seven other National League teams that time. Politically astute observers realized that by playing home games in New Jersey, O'Malley was issuing an implied threat, that said, in effect, "If the Dodgers can play home games in New Jersey, the team can also play all of its home games in Los Angeles." The Mullin cartoon measures 13.5x19", matted and framed to 20x20.5". The Mullin cartoon depicts O'Malley with various deeds and legal papers in his pockets that foreshadow the California move. The ditty at the top of the cartoon reads, "Up from the South at break of day, Ready for anything, come what may, They'll play the string out, play it by heart, For the road to October knows no chart, The Dodgers are ready, here for their part, Heralding the season, soon to start, And O'Malley's dream twenty miles away." The O'Malley character proclaims, "Home!" Meanwhile, the bewildered "Brooklyn Bum" says, "I am?" The art has what appears to be "Whiteout" usage after the word "Heralding." The original art appears EX-MT and is signed by Willard Mullin.