[View this email in your browser]() You still have time to pick up limited-edition items created by local Brooklyn artists for our **Museum Relief Fund**, such as this linoleum print of Negro League baseball star **John Henry "Pops" Lloyd** by Jason Eisner.

Lloyd (1884–1964) played for several New York City teams from 1906 to 1932 including the NY Lincoln Giants and the Brooklyn Royal Giants, which were both part of baseball’s historic Negro League. Star athletes like Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner recognized and praised Lloyd’s talent. He was inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. When asked what inspired him to create this print, Eisner told us:
*...the Negro League history is something I’m new to myself and really interested in learning about. It’s amazing, and at the same time it’s also an important part of remembering American racism. That’s something we shouldn’t be forgetting...After the integration of Major League baseball, that was kind of death knell for the Negro Leagues. So these players that established long histories and made a livelihood and were heroes, and were too old to join the major leagues, were in a way lost because of this integration. So I was compelled in some way to make that object for [the City] Reliquary, a place where you should be remembering.*