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There’s one “hall” that couldn’t wait to get Pete Rose in. The Cincinnati Art Museum is opening Up at Bat: Warhol and Baseball to the public on April 3. It was previously scheduled to be on view April 11 – Aug. 2, with a preview opportunity April 7 – 10. This exhibition brings Warhol’s three known paintings of baseball players, each of whom rose to the level of pop celebrity during his lifetime, together for the first time on record. Up at Bat: Warhol and Baseball will feature the 1985 painting of Pete Rose, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum in anticipation of Rose breaking Ty Cobb’s record of 4,191 hits; Baseball, 1962, on loan from the Nelson-Atkins Museum, portraying Roger Maris; and the 1977 portrait of Tom Seaver, who pitched his only no-hitter as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, lent by the Andy Warhol Museum. Warhol’s painting of “Charlie Hustle” fi

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