As a photographer for Sports Illustrated in the 1960s and '70s, Neil Leifer captured many of baseball's defining moments. But it's the routine, workaday shots he took—Mickey Mantle beating a throw to first, Johnny Bench making a play at the plate orrnCasey Stengel scolding Yogi Berra during arnpitching change—that make this collection fascinating. Here, in gorgeous black and white and Kodachrome color, is the game as it looked before the free-agency craze, before Moneyball, when every player pulled his socks to his knees and performance enhancement meant a big wad of chaw. Just 1,000 copies of this lavish edition will be published, each bound in pinstriped cotton cloth and signed by the author.
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