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It’s always a pleasure to speak with Jean Fruth. Whatever project she takes on is full of passion, whether it’s photographing baseball across small town America (Grassroots Baseball: Route 66) or talking with some of the greats of the game about how they got their start (Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin), or, in her latest […]

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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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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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