Some of the shots they take are so on-top-of-the-action, so perfectly timed, that sports photographers almost deserve to be considered athletes themselves. Here are three collections of work by men who moved into the right position, with the right lens, at just the right moment.
1. The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon?s Golden Age Baseball Photographs, by Neal McCabe and Constance McCabe (Abrams, $35). The lustrous black-and-white photos that Charles M. Conlon took for the Sporting News from 1904 to 1942 range from portraits (the craggy face of baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis does justice to his unorthodox name) to action shots (Ty Cobb sliding into second base under a spray of dirt). But the captions by Neal and Constance McCabe are revelations in themselves. We learn, for example, that few players have made the difference that Rogers Hornsby did for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1926. Late in the season, after his team lost four of five to the New York Giants with player-manger Hornsby recovering from thigh surgery, he rejoined the lineup in Brooklyn, where ?six games were played with the Robins [as the Dodgers were called then], and the Cardinals swept though every one of them.? The Cards? momentum helped propel them to victory in that year?s World Series.
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