“Where Jurinko really touched a chord was in his images of defunct ballparks,” said Marty Appel, who for 25 seasons, until 1992, worked for the Yankees. “He recognized that baseball fans not only have an allegiance to the team, but to the ballpark. And when he reached back to those ballparks, people immediately recalled what it was like going to their first games with their dads.”  Citing what he called Mr. Jurinko’s “impeccably drawn” works, Ray Robinson, the author of 35 baseball books, said: “He was a nut on stats — the exact number of feet to right field, center field, left field; the exact color of those advertising signs. He was the top of the craftsmen who did this kind of stuff.”  But Mr. Jurinko did far more than record vistas of ballparks, some of them in murals like the one of the old Yankee Stadium that covers most of a wall at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. He painted more than 400 portraits of star players and more than 150 action pieces.  His first book, “Heart of the Game” (2004), which focuses on the American League from 1946 to 1960, includes images of Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams and Hank Greenberg at bat; Nellie Fox bunting; Luis Aparicio sliding into home; Roger Maris sprawled in the dirt after a knockdown pitch; Yogi Berra jumping into Don Larsen’s arms after Larsen’s perfect game in the World Series; and 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel pinch-hitting for the Browns. Another book, “Golden Boys,” which includes National League stars from the same era, is scheduled for release this year.  But for a wisp of good luck, those books would not have been published. Their core material, 650 photographic slides of Mr. Jurinko’s paintings, was nearly destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center came down. The south tower overlooked his loft. Although parts of the planes that struck the towers were found in the badly damaged loft, the slides were protected by a file cabinet.  Most of Mr. Jurinko’s paintings are in private collections, but almost two dozen lithographs of his works are in the collection of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.  Andrew Floyd Jurinko was born in Phillipsburg, N.J., on June 17, 1939, one of three children of Andrew and Mae Wellen Jurinko. His father was a factory worker, and an avid baseball fan. Besides his wife, he is survived by his brother, Stephen, and his sister, Shirley Supp.  Young Andrew, who began to draw when he was 3, played baseball in high school. He then attended an arts school in Philadelphia and started getting work as an illustrator. It was in the early 1980s that he started combining his passions, traveling to stadiums around the country and spending weeks poring over photographs at the Hall of Fame.  In 2004, asked why he had focused on the 1946 through 1960 seasons, he said, “I thought I’d like to pay homage to those guys who made $25,000 a year if they were lucky.”  An obituary last Sunday about Andy Jurinko, an artist known for his baseball paintings, misstated the score of a 1950 game between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Browns that figured in one of his paintings. The Red Sox won that game 29-4, not 24-9. The obituary also referred incorrectly to the professional background of Marty Appel, who discussed the significance of Mr. Jurinko’s work. While he did work for the Yankees for 25 years and was eventually chief publicist, he did not hold that position during his entire tenure. (He began as a publicist and later produced their games for television.)  A version of this article appears in print on February 27, 2011, on Page A26 of the New York edition with the headline: Andy Jurinko, 71, Painter; Old Stadiums Live in His Art. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Mr. Jurinko specialized in baseball scenes from 1946 to 1960, like the Ebbets Field sign for Abe Stark’s clothing store.