Getting out the vote through
baseball & community
During the summer and fall of 2018, The Long Time–a baseball field, design / build workshop, and the home of the sandlot baseball club, The Texas Playboys–became a hot spot for raising money for local charitable causes and supporting the senate candidate, Beto O’Rourke (a fellow sandlot baseball player) in his race for the Senate. With the midterm elections fast approaching, I collaborated with Jack Sanders and Parker Keyes to create The Long Times, a publication dedicated to celebrating the community surrounding the Texas Playboys and their effort to turn out for Texas—a collective undertaking that involved fundraising, block walking and distributing the now unmistakable “I’m so gonna vote” stickers.
Project services
Newspaper design & production
Team
Myself - Editor-In-Chief, Designer
Parker Keyes - Design, Content
Jack Sanders - Content Coordinator, Owner of The Long Time and Design Build Adventure
My role
Led design and production of the paper in collaboration with Jack Sanders and Parker Keyes.
The project
The newspaper included an endorsement for Beto written by one of the Texas Playboys, a write-up about The Long Time, a feature story about the Turn Out for Texas fundraising effort and missed connections written to and from members of The Long Time community.
While Beto lost the senate race, early voter turnout by young people in Texas rose by 500% and he managed to win more votes than any democrat has in the history of Texas (and he even gave us a shout out for the most exciting endorsement of his campaign).
“The only way Beto wins on November 6th, is if we all Turn Out For Texas in a wave of historic voter participation. As Beto says, you don’t want to wake up on the 7th wondering if could have done more.”
— The Long Time Community’s endorsement for Beto O’Rourke
and call to vote, published in The Long Times
