Using both traditional portrait angles and innovative looks at the players, Charles Conlon captured the soul of baseball taking over thirty-thousand photographs from 1904 to 1942. Over 200 hundred of his most celebrated appear in his latest book – “The Big Show: Charles Conlan’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs”, a follow up to Baseball’s Golden Age which esteemed author Roger Angell of The New Yorker called “the best book of baseball photographs ever published”.
The photographer’s exceptional talents provide a soulful look through both big stars like Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Joe DiMaggio and Christy Mathewson as well as lesser-known major leaguers all of which are paired with captions using quotes from the players themselves shining a light on famous scandals, divulging quirky characteristics and recounting little-known stories.
Baseball historians Neal and Constance McCabe as well as The Boys of Summer author Roger Kahn put the compilation together.
