In its heyday--from 1904-1942--Charles M. Conlon photographed the entire world of baseball. From an almost forgotten legacy of 8,000 negatives, the authors combine more than 200 action shots of star players such as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, umpires, coaches, and fans along with evocative stories and trivia to portray the glory of the sport and the era.
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In its heyday--from 1904-1942--Charles M. Conlon photographed the entire world of baseball. From an almost forgotten legacy of 8,000 negatives, the authors combine more than 200 action shots of star players such as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, umpires, coaches, and fans along with evocative stories and trivia to portray the glory of the sport and the era.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Baseball; Photography. ISBN: 0810931303. ISBN/EAN: 9780810931305. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7327.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1993. Quarto. Green boards stamped in white with patterned endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and a 1" tear top of spine. 198 pages. ISBN: 9780810931305. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very good in Very good jacket. Format is approximately 10.5 inches by 10.25 inches. 198 pages. Illustrations (Fold-out). DJ is in a plastic sleeve. The photographs reproduced in this book were printed by Constance McCabe from the original negatives at Photo Preservation Services, Inc. Alexandria, Virginia. The "Cobb photo" is considered the first "action" sports photo. On July 23, 1910, Conlon snapped an action photo of Cobb sliding into third. For publication, the original photo was cropped on the right, taking away almost half of the image. That is the version everyone saw until Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon was published in 1993. The excised portion is included and shows more of the right-side bleachers, as well as the left arm of the third base coach. Neal McCabe is a baseball historian and the author, who edited and co-produced the audio version of The Glory of Their Times, the classic 1966 oral history of baseball by Lawrence S. Ritter. McCabe has also adapted The Glory of Their Times for the stage. His lifelong fascination with baseball history was sparked in childhood by the hypnotic story-telling of Dodger announcer Vin Scully. Constance McCabe is head of the photograph conservation department at the National Gallery of Art. She can trace her fascination with old photographs to her childhood, when she would sit for hours as her grandmother showed her the family snapshots. This book is the first from the brother-sister team, showcasing Constance's efforts in the darkroom and Neal's writing and researching. Charles Martin Conlon (November, 1868-1945) was an American photographer. Conlon started his career working for New York City newspapers in the early 1900s and took up landscape photography as a hobby. New York Evening Telegram editor John B. Foster, who also produced the annual "Spalding Base Ball Guide", asked Conlon to take photographs of the players for the well known annual. Conlon later wrote in The Sporting News that "'[Foster] came to know about my hobby-taking pictures. He said to me one day, 'Charley, they need pictures of ball players for the Guide, and there is no reason why you can't take pictures of the players, as well as landscapes. It will be a good pickup for you, and it will be something for a day off. '" Conlon used a Graflex View camera and large format glass plate negatives before switching to film, in all he created at least 30, 000 images over his career that spanned 1904-1941. Most of his archive consisted of thousands of portraits of major league baseball players, however his most famous photo is a fortunate action shot of Ty Cobb sliding into third base at Hilltop Park in 1910, upending the fielder, Jimmy Austin. This photo, and many of his images, of baseball's early stars are instantly recognizable, due to having been frequently reprinted over the years and the subject of several books, trading cards and documentaries. After his death the famous archive of 8, 300 negatives, less than one third of the total number of images he created, was owned by The Sporting News. Ty Cobb slides into third in a flurry of dust and spikes. Home Run Baker, young and strong, takes batting practice while his teammates stand in awe. Wee Willie Keeler and Cy Young, Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams--these and other American heroes take the field in Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon. From 1904 to 1942, Conlon photographed it all, creating some of baseball's most famous photographs, but the photographer himself has remained practically unknown. This volume is the first publication to reproduce Conlon's photographs as fine art and to give his remarkable legacy its due. Selected and printed from the Conlon negatives in the archives of The Sporting News, 205 dazzling images fill the pages of Baseball's Golden Age. The glory of that time shines through in the text as well, as author Neal McCabe has assembled wonderful, evocative stories that...