Heading Home - Growing Up In Baseball [Hardcover]

Harry Connolly (Photographer), Stephen King (Introduction), Cal Ripken Jr. (Foreword)

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Connolly followed one youth baseball league in Maryland for over six years, shooting thousands of photos and culling the best of them, for this tribute to the home player. Horror novelist Stephen king shares his passion for youth baseball and others join the fun in celebrating neighborhood baseball. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Pub; 1st edition (June 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847818896
• ISBN-13: 978-0847818891
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,437,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A photographer's labor of love and homage to kid baseball, March 31, 1999

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Joe Doherty ([e-mail]) (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heading Home - Growing Up In Baseball (Hardcover)

This is obviously a labor of love for Connolly. The beautiful black and white photographs, a mixture of portraiture and reportage, capture the essence of kids playing baseball. This is reinforced by Cal Ripken's moving foreword, in which he writes that "for this brief phase in my life, the playing field was level and everyone was equal." It reminds me of Butterworth's revelation in "The Bad News Bears" that these are just kids who love to play; they have yet to place winning above fun.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!!, January 14, 2002

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B. Tucker (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heading Home - Growing Up In Baseball (Hardcover)

This is simply a wonderful book. These black and white photographs, mostly non action shots, taken over 3 or 4 years at the same little league park in working class east Baltimore have an emotional power and honesty that is both rare and quite moving. The book works on so many levels: children, baseball, families, cities, and art.