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Baseball Photography Classics

“It’s a great addition to your coffee table, or as a gift to the baseball fan in your life.” ―baseballmusings.com

#1 New Release in Photojournalism, Photo Essays, Statistics, History, Sports Photography, and Sports

Picturing America’s Pastime celebrates baseball through a unique photography collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s unmatched archive of baseball photos.

Preserving History, Honoring Excellence, Connecting Generations is the mission of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Now, with this unequaled collection of photos from baseball history, you can revel in the moments we share at the ballpark, the grand sweep of the stadium, the drama of the game, and classic images of baseball greats.

Celebrate the history of baseball and baseball photography. Go beyond the standard highlights of baseball history in this collection of rarely seen photos that reveals the full landscape of our national pastime as no other collection can. Selected by the historians and curators at the Baseball Hall of Fame, the photographs reveal the rich relationship between photography and the game.  Each image includes an historic quote and a detailed caption, often highlighting little-known information about the photographers and techniques used across the 150 plus years covered in the book.

Experience the storied history of this great game through iconic images:

  • Panoramic photos of historic stadiums
  • A thoughtful Honus Wagner studying his bat
  • Early African American team portraits and photos of such greats as Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, and Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso
  • And much more!

If you have enjoyed baseball photography books such as The Story of Baseball: In 100 Photographs, 100 Year in Pinstripes: The New York Yankees in Photographs, or Baseball: An Illustrated History, you will love The National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Picturing America’s Pastime.

ISBN-13: 9781642505337

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Mango Media

Publication Date: 06-17-2021

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is the premiere national institution celebrating the history of baseball and its place in our social and cultural landscape. It reaches more than ten million baseball fans annually: visitors to its exhibition halls, website, and through its educational programs. Over 22 big league seasons, Randy Johnson won 303 games – the fifth-best total among all left-handers at the time of his retirement. The 6-foot-10 Johnson won the 1995 American League Cy Young Award with the Mariners and four straight National League Cy Young Awards with the Diamondbacks from 1999-2002. A fearsome competitor and 10-time All-Star, Johnson led his league in strikeouts nine times, mixing a blistering fastball with a darting slider. He shared World Series Most Valuable Player honors with Diamondbacks teammate Curt Schilling after going 3-0 in the 2001 Fall Classic, leading Arizona to a seven-game victory over the Yankees. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 2015 in his first year of eligibility, Johnson has traveled the world in the years since his retirement from the game – following his passion for music and photography. He is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“I am honored that a photo of me is included in this beautiful book. Page by page, Picturing America’s Pastime provides a glimpse into the history of the game I love, full of extraordinary images. From players on the field and fans in the stands to stars and lesser-known players from as far back as the history of the sport goes—it’s all there in these pages. There’s no better way to celebrate the game than pouring through this one-of-a-kind collection from the Hall of Fame’s unequalled photo archive.”
—Rod Carew, Hall of Fame Class of 1991

“I met a woman named Tess in Boston who was in her nineties and joyfully recalled sitting on a box near the first row at Fenway Park in The Babe’s time, and he’d hand her ice cream, then walk to the batter’s box. In Picturing America’s Pastime, I recall her, as The Babe is pictured with a girl scout. This is the history to whom the Hall of Fame is dedicated, of the lines drawn from Oscar Charleston to Henry Aaron, Minnie Miñoso to El Duque, our grandfathers to all of us, a reminder that baseball is the arboretum where stands our family trees.”
—Peter Gammons, 2004 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner

“My favorite thing about the Hall of Fame is the way it brings baseball to life on any day of any year. And I got that same feeling as I turned the pages of Picturing America’s Pastime. You can pick literally any page and transport yourself back to another place, another time, to conjure up a memory, to look into the eyes of a forgotten legend or to imagine what it must have been like to watch someone like Warren Spahn pitch. What a beautiful, evocative book.”
—Jayson Stark, 2019 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner and senior baseball writer for The Athletic

“The fabulous photographic assets of the Baseball Hall of Fame are on display gorgeously, if teasingly, in Picturing America’s Pastime. Only a visit to the Hall’s archives will confirm that there is, indeed, more. This dazzling book revives for me, and provides for the reader, the thrill of discovering the unexpected.”
​—John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball

“As an admitted baseball freak it was fun to get lost in the photos and imagine what was happening in the game when they were taken.”
—Yardbarker

“If there were a single suggestion to the Hall’s team that assembled the incredible visuals that take’s readers through the history of baseball is—I found myself wanting more.”
—Don Laible, WIBX950 AM