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Photography

Someone does evidement, as per this review of Neil Leifer’s Ballet in the Dirt on this French photographic Web site.

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According to Long Beach’s own Grunion Gazette. The publisher, Arcadia, covers hundreds of topics in a photo album motif, heavy on the illustrations, light on text.

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The author of Baseball in Baltimore is the subject of this article on Citypaper.com. The book “cycles through the city’s ballpark evolution, from Memorial Stadium to Municipal Stadium–christened Venable Stadium in 1922–and on back to the old Oriole Park at 29th Street and Greenmount Avenue, which burned to the ground July 4, 1944.” Upshot: It’s […]

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Would you pay $400 for a book of baseball photographs? One thousand bibliophiles did. Some didn’t even blink when the price rose to $700 for Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, a coffee table collection of lensman Neil Leifer’s best work, published in late 2007 by Taschen Books. Leifer, 65, got his […]

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From Sportscollectorsdaily.com, a brief but fervent recommendation of photographer Terry Heffernan’s new project featuring items from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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For serious collectors only

February 19, 2008

When it was first published, Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball, a collection of Neil Leifer’s photographs which had a limited run of 1,000 copies, went for $400; towards the end, it was selling for $700. The 65-year-old Leifer, who has spent a good portion of his shooting for Sports Illustrate, is […]

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Bits and Pieces

December 12, 2007

Trying to clean up a lot of backlog here: *** From the Brooklyn-based Jewish Press, this review of Dana Brands’ Mets Fan. *** Charles C. Alexander, author of biographies on Ty Cobb, John McGraw, and Rogers Hornsby, as well as a treatise on baseball during the Depression, recently released his studious account on Tris Speaker. […]

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Speaking of SI

November 16, 2007

Here’s an interesting piece on how the sports publication deals with all its digital imagery.

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The New York Public Library is hosting this marvelous collection of old-tyme baseball images. Some are in uniform, others more formal, and others staged “action” shots. The Albert G. Spalding Collection includes photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. […]

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