Neil Leifer: Ballet in the Dirt: The Golden Age of Baseball by Neil Leifer, Ron Shelton, Gabriel Schechter

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Synopsis

This superb collection of 60s and 70s baseball images commemorates the sport's finest moments via the lens of legendary sports photographer Neil Leifer Featuring over 300 photos, the book is divided into four chapters: The Game; the Heroes-like Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, and pitcher Sandy Koufax; the Rivalry (infamously, between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox and the Giants and Dodgers); and the World Series championship.

Smithsonian Magazine

Leifer shot for Sports Illustrated from 1960 until he left in 1978 to make his mark photographing everything from politics to wildlife for other titles in the Time-Life family...By the time Leifer left Time Inc in 1990...he had produced more than 200 covers for the company's magazines — and an archive that suggests nobody got inside baseball better than he did.

Biography

By 1960, at age 17, native New Yorker Neil Leifer had his first pictures published in Sports Illustrated and he was on his way. He went on to create over 200 covers for SI, Time and People; and photographed 15 Olympic Games, 4 World Cups, 17 Kentucky Derbies, 15 Masters Tournaments, countless World Series, the first 12 Super Bowls, and every major heavyweight championship title boxing match since Floyd Patterson fought Ingemar Johansson in 1960, as well as Muhammad Ali's entire career. Today he produces and directs films, in addition to the occasional photo shoot.

Writer/director Ron Shelton played second base in the Baltimore farm system for five years before making films including Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, and Cobb. He is currently working on Our Lady of the Ballpark, a film about the Mexican Leagues.