Neil Leifer. The Golden Age of Baseball

Native New Yorker Neil Leifer began photographing sports events as a teenager. Over 160 of his pictures have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and over 40 of his photographs have graced the cover of Time . He has published 17 books, and was one of two principal photographers in TASCHEN’s tribute to Muhammad Ali , GOAT—Greatest Of All Time , and the illustrated edition of Norman Mailer’s The Fight .

Sports authority Gabriel Schechter , is the author of five books, most recently This Bad Day in Yankees History .

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.

Eric Kroll edited several titles for TASCHEN including Natacha Merritt’s Digital Diaries and The Wonderful World of Bill Ward . His photography was the subject of TASCHEN’s Fetish Girls and Beauty Parade .