Biography from AskART:
| John Good Reilly divided his time for ten seasons between art and major league baseball. His performance as first baseman “Long John” Reilly of the Cincinnati Red Stockings was illustrious, though on or off the field he was never without his pocket-size sketchbook and a lead pencil or lithographers crayon.
During the off-seasons, he worked as a designer at the Strobridge Lithographing Company. A graduate of the Cincinnati School of Design, he was an early member of the Cincinnati Art Club and a friend of Henry Farny. He retired from the majors in 1891 and branched out into oil and watercolor painting.
Source:
Mary S. Haverstock, Timeline, by the Ohio Historical Society, March – June 2003 (Submittted June 2007 by Edward Bentley, Art Researcher from Lansing, Michigan)
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