Classic Baseball Photographs, 1869-1947 [Hardcover]

Donald Honig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

A stunning photo gallery chronicling baseball's early history. Classic Baseball Photographs 1869-1947 is one of the most beautiful compilations of sports photographs ever published. Beginning with the team portrait of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, this spectacular book charts the course of the "boys of summer" through the Black Sox scandal and World War II years to the Negro League and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each picture transports the viewer back to a different exciting moment when baseball was still in its youth, while Donald Honig's thoughtful, authoritative text puts the images into context. Included are priceless photographs of immortal greats like "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Jackie Robinson, as well as wonderful images documenting lesser-known athletes who contributed to baseball's glorious early years.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 182 pages
• Publisher: Smithmark Pub (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765110555
• ISBN-13: 978-0765110558
• Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 9.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,851,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Compilation of the Past Images of our National Pastime, October 5, 2008

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Richard C. Geschke "In search of History!!" (Bristol, Ct) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classic Baseball Photographs, 1869-1947 (Hardcover)

Donald Honig has compiled the art and texture of the infancy of professional baseball and forward to its adolescence and onto its adulthood.
What Honig has done is to compile pictures that are indeed representative of each period. Many of these images are haunting. You see the hard faces of young men who if they didn't play the game surely would be doing hard manual labor.
The image of the photograph of the 1907 New York Highlanders at Hot Springs, Arkansas during Spring Training conjures images of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The pictures of Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, Tris Speaker, Smokey Joe Wood and Napoleon Lojoie are priceless.
Later the images of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Bob Feller and Joe DiMaggio grace the pages.
Mr. Honig just does not show these classic images, he sets in prose a great narrative in explaining who these players were.
I am a baseball fan. This photographic narrative from 1869 to 1947 is indeed a classic. I recommend this work to all serious baseball fans. Five Stars, no problem!!!