Diamond Dreams: Thirty Years of Baseball Through the Lens of Walter Iooss
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ISBN: 0316420123 / Publisher: Little Brown & Co, January 1996
A photographer for Sports Illustrated for thirty years presents photographs of baseball's greatest players and most memorable moments
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Diamond Dreams is an elegant, spectacular collection of more than 130 of Iooss's extraordinary baseball photographs, the sport that has always been closest to his heart. With provocative text by award-winning sports columnist Tom Boswell, it encompasses the finest of Iooss's work, from stunning panoramas to dramatic action shots and intimate portraits of the game's greats: Ken Griffey, Jr., Don Mattingly, Kirby Puckett, Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, Darryl Strawberry, Carl Yastrzemski, Nolan Ryan, Jose Canseco, Sandy Koufax, Steve Carlton, George Brett, Carlton Fisk, Dwight Gooden, Willie Mays, Wade Boggs, and many, many others. Here is baseball as you've rarely seen it before, through the lens of a true artist with a great passion for his subject. As no other book has, Diamond Dreams captures the essence of America's pastime.
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